“Freedom, I am beginning to realize, means not even being aware you're free.”

“As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want… maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future.”

“I am reminded once again that the best things about America are the little things, the little freedoms that Americans don't think twice about.”

“America is all about freedom of choice.”

“It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them”

“When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.”

“Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous”