"Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific."

"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life."

"Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others."

"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."

"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death."

"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."