Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

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.

Portrayals and perceptions are only one in the same to the actor himself.

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

The eminent strategy had won yesterday, but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.