I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.