My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.