Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

I don't care if you love me or not. I'll love you anyway.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

If you guys wanted to blend in, you shouldn't have send Dimples here. The way some of the women are staring at him, I might end up having to protect him instead. -Relentless

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?

Hope is itself a species of happiness.