We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?
Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.
They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me. I would not shoot him. This is the compassion that I have learnt from Muhammad- the Prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This is the legacy of change that I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of non-violence that I have learnt from Gandhi Gi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learnt from my mother and father. This is what my soul is telling me, be peaceful and love everyone.
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.
The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. . . . Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
Knowledge is structured in consciousness
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.