Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

Begin to dream.

life is a challenge, which never accept back challenge. Accept is as it is as when it will start ignoring you that will be horrible.

By becoming a writer I realized that I will live forever.” – Manos Filippou, Author

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.