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

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

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.

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

History is the third parent.

Her mind is a haunted house.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

I believe in generous aid policies.

Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

Being at home is a job in itself and raising a family for sure.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.