"The only model to follow is pure Islam."

“There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.”

Source : "Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

“The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.”

Source : Bartolomé de las Casas (1992). “Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas”

“I grew up beyond proud - we didnt have much, but we had a lot of love.”

“Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.”

Source : Song: Turn Back the Clock

“When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.”

“There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.”

“Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed.”

“There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political”