In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

There are a lot of jobs in the financial industry that do need a math major.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.