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

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

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

When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

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

We must strive to be like the moon