Julian Jawad Ahmad

“Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.”
― Kennedy Odede, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

“You cannot control circumstances, my dear sir; ‘man proposes, and God disposes.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is not scripted which makes the endeavor to understand it enthralling.”
― Julian Jawad Ahmad

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos