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.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

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.