We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

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.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

I declareThat later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.