“Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.”

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

We need much less than we think we need.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father’s brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.

The thing that’s wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.

I think imparting sex education to children is important.

The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.