“I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not...”

“In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.”

“Travel teaches as much as books.”

“Islam is a peaceful religion.”

“I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.”

“In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitu...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”