Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. – The taste of anything can be changed. – But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understand the problems of running a country.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.