I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake, ” she said

Sound soul

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.