Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels.

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.

God will defeat the great infidels.

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

If we need to compete with anyone, we need to compete with ourselves. We need to challenge ourselves to be a better version of ourselves. We need to challenge ourselves to do better every single day.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.