I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

Being an actress in China, Im actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!

There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.