"The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country."

"But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time."

"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."

"We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me."

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."