Don't nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

I have learned that one should say “Peace!” to those who shout their hatred for one’s being and presence or at one’s passage.

Islam doesn’t need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Communion in faith, in the intimacy of meaning, cannot remain purely conceptual; it can maintain its vivifying energy only if it associates with communion in speech and action within a common space of social and cultural references. Faith needs culture.

North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more devastating violence than that of armed groups, even if the latter are spectacular.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change.

Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one’s instincts: living one’s natural desires in the light of one’s principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.

The desert is often the locus of prophecies because it naturally offers to the human gaze the horizons of the infinite.

Your sensitivity is power. Don’t let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France’s future in any way.