But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

You can't judge a book by its cover, " he said. "No, " said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.

I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.