Simply to endure is to triumph.

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.

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

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.

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.

Does not heed to the darkWith its shimmering light, Moon quietly bathes the ocean

Ninjas don't wish upon a star, they throw them.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.