I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

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.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!

What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.