We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.