Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.