The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.

If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.