I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

I want all my pain to count for something.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Go, do not be afraid and serve

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.