Salem Lorot

“Countries rush to war thinking it is the quickest, easiest solution to conflict, only to find themselves still entrenched years later, suffering more losses than they expected and asking themselves, bewildered, "How did we get here?" There is no "winning" a war.”
― Joseph Sebarenzi, God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Some things you know without ever being told. Other things you learn slowly. You learn them despite what you want to believe.”
― Joseph Sebarenzi, God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin