When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

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.

Visionaries will always meet opposition from weak minds but the seeds they plant always save the world

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

When you aren't open to grow

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

I'm a lot happier in people's living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.