I can look back and see that although a human life is less than the blink of an eyelid in terms of the universe, within its own framework it is amazingly capacious so that it can contain many opposites. One life can contain serenity and tumult, heartbreak and happiness, coldness and warmth, grabbing and giving […]
Sin is given so that we may repent and repentance brings joy to the soul and strength to the body, understand? Â – Grigory Rasputin (cited in Sashenka by Simon Montefiore P.49)
Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.  – the late Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (p.258) Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science and international relations at Harvard University for over five decades, died on December 24.
Our feel-good movie of the year is “Slumdog Millionaire,” a Dickensian tale in which we root for an impoverished orphan from Mumbai’s slums to hit the jackpot on the Indian edition of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” It’s a virtuoso feast of filmmaking by Danny Boyle, but it’s also the perfect fairy tale for […]
I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – rocks! – Albert Einstein
 Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan. – Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.