What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

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.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.