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

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.

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

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.

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

That's true that Sen. Robert Bird was in the Klan and a lot of people were friends of Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Without hope we are lost.

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.