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.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.