In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.

I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.

But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.

He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.

If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.

I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky in their backdrop.

Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God

You wake up one day and realise that your struggles and battles are your own and no one else ́s. And there is no one more capable to fight all the odds and enemies except you and you alone!

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.