The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

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

There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.