I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Homer no function beer well without.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.