People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.