Khaled Hosseini

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. [...] When you kill a man, you steal a life, [...] you steal his wife`s right to husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone`s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

A boy who won`t stand up for himself becomes a man who can`t stand up to anything.