I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.

A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

But I'm a patient, so I have to focus on recuperation

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.