I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ?

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time

Support Imagination. Read a book.

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.