The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.

If you wish to compare, compare yourself with God's commandment.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only medium that's allowed me to flirt with a sense of self-worth, with joy and comfort.