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

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.

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.

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.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.