Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions.

Let your thoughts and intentions always be forgiving and loving so that you may bring true peace to mankind.

There are no more worlds to conquer!

It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth— give berth to your worldview.

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.