This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn't start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.