Cruelty is not a literary value.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

The one who loses something is not a looser somewhere he/she is achieving more than that. You are the best just look at the mirror.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.