Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.