I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

Don't dream of winning, train for it.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

God does not need just ability but availability

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.

Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence

Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.