For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.