We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.

I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

"If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt", and "against" here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

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

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.