I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

A little of God will not move the hand of God.

You must learn to enjoy life and have fun doing what you love

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.