I want to send a message that we value our Muslim communities.
Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.
Words may inspire but only action creates change.
Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.
We are much better than we know.
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.