My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

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.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

For the sake of the aftermath.

You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

I have a lot of beliefs... and I live by none of them...

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.