If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Belief means nothing without actions

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.