I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

Don't dream of winning, train for it.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.