Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

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.

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.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.