Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

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.

As the husband is the wife is.

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.

Sometimes you have to know when to shut the f - - up.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.