This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?

As we follow that Man of Galilee-even the Lord Jesus Christ-our personal influence will be felt for good wherever we are, whatever our callings.