I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.