As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time.

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrimage if they are debt-free or at least have made an arrangement for repayment.

Time by time the human being needs a love more than religion, at that time the world more peacefully

I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.