"I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction."

"I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim…"

"State-sponsored suppression of political opposition is the first step for a polity's regression to political tyranny. Use of terror and torture without recourse to trial is the second. Use of extremis…"

"I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death."

"Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone... feel at home, and it should never be con…"