I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

Leadership is a conversation.

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

Oh, how we need to wake up to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s blessing and power is the key to everything.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.