But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

I will love you till my soul loses its consciousness.

He regretted nothing. Not the way she’d felt in his arms and not the way he’d felt in hers.

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?