When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

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.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment.

Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.