In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

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 ?

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.

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes