Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.

I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

In pain a new time is born.

I was never born, I didnt die.

Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.

He worked many hours a day. I think he was a born volunteer.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.