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

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.

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

Man, sometimes God really sucks.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.