All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

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].

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

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

I'll never love you anymore than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than Ido, right this second.

Your belief is the operating system on which your life runs.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.