When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.