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.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

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 make mistakes but the important thing then should be, Learn from them and do not repeat them subsequently.[230] - 4 (Thoughts)

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.