There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

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.

To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono.

The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.