Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs.

Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum.

You should never live according to what you lack.

There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.

I found heaven today. Her name is Mercy. She didn't see me because I was too tongue-tied to speak to her - Luke

If you have to tell them you are, you're usually not. It usually speaks for itself.

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

You're going to have a deportation force. And you're going to do it humanely.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.