When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

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.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

Everyone has something unique about them.

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.