Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Information is the currency of democracy.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.