The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

We must strive to be like the moon

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

... and I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!