Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

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.

When our dreams don’t come true, sometimes we can hand them down to our children and hope that they will come true for them. The joy can be immeasurable just the same.

Life is all about experiencing the good and the bad part of life. Good part gives you good memories and bad part teaches you good lessons in your life.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.