Quotes

I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

We need to see a Palestinian state.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.