I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.

All I know is a door into the dark

Thinking about going to the balcony and jumping off.

Outer beauty is transient, but the beauty of the soul is everlasting.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

There is no tenderness without bravery.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.