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

Everywhere I go in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I am touched by the fierce desire for education, and the outpouring of hospitality and generosity. The most important ingredient is the relationships. The process takes "Three Cups of Tea". First you are a stranger, second a friend, and the third, you become family, but the process takes several years. Here in America, we have 8 second sound bytes, 2 minute football drills, and thirty minute power lunches.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

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