I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.

Part of my life is saving life.

Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it’s not easy to rejoin. It’s very easy to say ‘I don’t trust you’, but the pain these words cause is immense.

Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.