I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

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.

Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

I’ve had four serious boyfriends in my life.”He growled.“What is wrong?”“Love is forever.” He gave her a disgusted look. “You have no idea what real love is, Joy.

A week is a long time in the life of a child.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.