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

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.

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

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

You are not showing her my baby pictures!” He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. “Come on, Evan, ” I teased with a laughing smile, “you were adorable.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.