It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.

Our trials are tests our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.

When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.

Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.