...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

We must strive to be like the moon

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.