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

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

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

According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.

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.

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