The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know..

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half centur….

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock..

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economi….

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book ….

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these….

Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civ….

Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness a….

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence..

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - th….

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms ….

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a….

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, a….

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of….

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility….

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. I….

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two worlds….

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those….

There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it….

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed..

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation..