All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

History is the third parent.

Her mind is a haunted house.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.