History is the third parent.

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

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

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.

Her mind is a haunted house.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.

If you only love 70% of yourself, that's what is going to come back to you.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.