The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African American citizens) as well as a dangerous dehumanization of some people (in Palestine, Iraq, Africa or Asia) are simply unacceptable.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.