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.

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.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

I'm going to undress you slowly so I can take in every inch of your perfect body. Holy shit, he played dirty.

I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.