I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

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.

Change comes from a process of trials and wilderness experiences, problems and difficulties — it’s a process of transition from one quality level to another.

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.