Born on October 5th

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

"It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game."

"It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it."

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

"In the field of motivation & action, do not wait for a clear sky; the most resilient journeys begin in the midst of the storm."

"Success is not a destination of comfort, but the daily practice of stepping into the unknown. As a poet & novelist, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Your potential is a fire waiting to be kindled by the friction of consistent effort."

"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services."

"Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people."

"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law."

"Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance."

"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

"You don't kill your way to peace."

"In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed."

"Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban."

"I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient."

"There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics."

"Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem."

"The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars."

"Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system."

"It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country."

"They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be."

"I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right."

"In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life."

"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money."

"A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did."

"Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion."

"One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy."

"At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other."

"I am basically a private person."