We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

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.

Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

The youthful heart is ready to believe what it wishes will happen.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.