… this is my first language.” {on Writing}

Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own.

If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.

Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.

The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.

If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.