I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

My house seems remarkably full of people, " he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

What doesn't kill you makes you CRAZY, GRUMPY, MAD AS EVER? NO it makes you STRONGER! Yep, you'll get there eventually!

To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours.

I'm what they call the love addict!