Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.
Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.
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.
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.
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.
Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.