I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

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."

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

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 the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.