I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them.