Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

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.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Your mind is the key to opening the door of opportunity.

Be sure of this: when you make time for the Holy Spirit, He will make time to visit you.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.