Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.