A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.

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

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

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