If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

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.

Don't waste this life being sad, angry or depressed as you just don't have as much time as you think you do.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

I grieve for every death.

When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong.

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?