In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

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.

Oh, no, nope, shoot. Are we about to human mate?

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

Im a McDonalds girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.