You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

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

I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

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.

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.