Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-- the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

A fallen planet is no easy place to live. Ya, but heaven is.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.