I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise."(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Time is the king of men.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

A just system must generate its own support.

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.