I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

What can't be cured must be endured.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'