If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

I'm pretty sure that Murdoch loathes the Internet

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand...3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.