I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

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.

If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.

God exists. He has one wicked since of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.

If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave...

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.