If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

How do you eat your roots?

This world is out of date

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

I still hear the world spinning.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

Every man needs God's mercy.

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I've been able to do a lot of things a lot of people haven't, that other people would dream of. I've been able to live out my fantasies, and dreams! So, I'm real lucky.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.