When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.

We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.

It is never too late to love.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Choose an author as you would a friend.