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

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

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.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

We have to change the world to fit us, not the other way around.

Love is the oxygen of the heart.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Faith is being loyal to you unseen reality within

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.