When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.