"If you are an American Muslim, you live in a community that is really struggling to get its feet off the ground. We're a very young community, so to speak, institutionally and otherwise. The way in which we're portrayed it's like we're the empire from Star Wars and the truth is that we'd be lucky to be the Rebel Alliance."

“If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.”

“Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.”

Source : "Donatella Versace: Fashion's Prima Donna". www.cnn.com.

“...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”

“I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ***** as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.”

“I'm concerned about people being happy,”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

“After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.”

“War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.”

“If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.”

Source : "A Nomad Repaints the Globe" by PREMJI, PartridgeIndia, (p. 70), 2013.