A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.