This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.