Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

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.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down.

You have witchcraft in your lips