"Solitude is very different from a ’time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other."

"Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. 'Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?' enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, 'Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression."

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."