Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.