It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

In a male-dominated environment, things are very macho, and you can't show weakness.

Relationships are working either for our good and success, or they are harming us

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.