Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Belief means nothing without actions

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Twice – Once too often.

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

All that running and exercise can do for you is make you healthy.

I can forgive, I just can't forget.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.