Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

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

The people of Pakistan are some of the most hospitable, kinds and generous people I have met anywhere, in the over 70 countries I have visited in my lifetime.

The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.