If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

It is important never to relax, however far you have come.