Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.

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.

Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.

Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.