“Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.”

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

You can make anything by writing.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

You can change your emotion immediately by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

Having had a lived experience with mental illness, I understand the importance of emotional wellbeing.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life – this is what you are here for.