Our memories are what make us who we are. Some are real. Some are made up. But they are the stories that tell us who we are. Without them we are nobody.

Your calling helps you to have goals

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.

I always kept myself fairly fit.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.