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

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.

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.

Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.