I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

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

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.