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.

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

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

Invest your capital of love to get the best dividend of a beautiful life filled with happiness.

If you listen to wise sayings, you will have a bright future.

To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.