The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Having a job does not mean living

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.

Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times.

It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret].

I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.