Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

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 light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.