With God's help we returned to the land of Khorasan [an old name for the area covering today's Afghanistan], where we have security and dignity, far away from the humiliations visited on our brothers in our country.
I'd rather be a liar than an asshole.
Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.
I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.
I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it. I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.
I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.
We must be doing something to be happy.
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.
I don't think. . . one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen. "