The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

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

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

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.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.