. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

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

You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

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

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.