I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.

I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.

I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws".

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

How did it make you feel?

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.