The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don't care who gets in the way.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.