Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.
For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.
But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn’t necessarily the place where people from all over the world who want to engage in these activities gravitate to. They’re going now to places like Syria or Yemen Libya, elsewhere.
There’s a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
What else is belief but direction?
The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.