"I'm not really interested in building a reputation for myself. But I do care for what the company stands for. I believe in work and being connected to the world we live in."

"Islam does not distinguish between the religious and profane. There being no ecclesia, its counterpart the saeculum becomes redundant. In a sense Islam is a secular religion, because it has no church."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

"Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice."

"When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world…"