All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Life without love, is the soul without the spirit.

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

Online personal branding is not about self-promotion... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.