I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

There's something strange about this big pink bunny.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.