We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.

God is a living Spirit.

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Politics for me started in violence.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.