阿富汗是我过去的一部分，是我欢笑与哭泣的土地，但它已不再是家。

It doesn’t matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do， raising the bar.

狗是人类的朋友，因为它看人不分贵贱。

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.