If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, a life-altering interruption in their education or career, and the sudden lifelong responsibility for another human being, I think they'd expect a choice in the matter. |

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. |

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. |

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. |

Quiet people have the loudest minds. |

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. |

Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face. |

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. |

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. |

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. |

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. |

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. |

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. |

You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out. |

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. |

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. |

Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have. |

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. |

Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. |

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. |

We have art in order not to die of the truth. |

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is. |

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. |