Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

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.

History is the third parent.

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

Wolves travel in packs, not in herds.

She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

Good enough is never good enough.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.