I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

I wished for someone to hold me up. Suddenly someone was there.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

Some things are more than we can understand.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Creativity is the new literacy

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.