A successful father is not more successful than his children.

— Raheel Farooq

Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.

— Raheel Farooq

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

— Raheel Farooq

Children and journalists need what they don't need, actually.

— Raheel Farooq

Children are prophets of nature.

— Raheel Farooq

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and Kafka!

— Raheel Farooq

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavored for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

— Raheel Farooq

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

— Raheel Farooq

Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

— Raheel Farooq

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

— Raheel Farooq