When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

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.

A product should be made intentionally

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.