Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Our happiness should not depend on external things

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

New things are always better than old things.

life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

I'm merely a fan of fashion from high end to streetwear, from Nike to Comme des Garcons.

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.