“People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred.”

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”

“Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.”

“I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty.”

“He who aims too high will get a sore neck”

“He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?''We do.' I smiled.He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me. 'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.”

“Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice”