Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable

I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.