Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

He's the game all right.

Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.