On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.