I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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