There are multiple things entering in your mind.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they were called to do..

The favour of the Lord maketh a man's face to shine bright.

You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.

You must seek to thyself.

With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.