It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world.

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.