You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

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.

There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.

I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Falling apart wasn't an option.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.