Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.