Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success.

Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.