I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

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.

Middle age is such a low point for well-being

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

I have always been an active part of my community.

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?