I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.