It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.