Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

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

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.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped

It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters