That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

What a great pleasure to work for your living?

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

What you do to benefit the lives of others will ultimately also benefit you.

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?