The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God

Distance is an outer phenomenon. In the inner world, everything is connected with love.

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

Bite them before they Bite you.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life