In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.