Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

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.

Now we’re guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on. No trees, no cool breeze, no best friends. Only endless days spent in sending SMSs...

Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.

Mitch thought she looked like an angel might—if the angel had fallen very hard into a very naughty position.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of.

Stop all your eyes at this time Right now, I'm electric heart

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.