In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

Women want to be chosen.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.

Live a life that transcends your own!

There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth.

Launch and learn. Everything is progress.

If it is not fit to live in, then our job is to make it fit.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.