The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

We integrate the good wherever we find it.

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know