Of course the law's not racist.

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.

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

The Hiltons know how to put on a good wedding, that's all I can say.

I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.