Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.