We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

Have you ever heard the earth breath?

If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or if it's a painting or play. I might sit down and write a play.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.