I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.