Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?