Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.

I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

With God all things are possible, and no conversion ever takes place save by the almighty power of the Holy Ghost. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know God.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

Eliminate all unnecessary negativity from your life and watch it change for the better.

Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].