Sophocles

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.