i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

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.

Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.