Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

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.

I can be around kids if I need to be.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.