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

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.

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

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.

Heat makes things expand

Increase calls for review, check-up, control, and analysis.

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.