If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

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.

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

The media's job is not to inform you

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.