I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

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.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

Love is an immortal lie!

Was mutual need enough to risk trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?

Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.