She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

Be what you are and sing a song of beauty and love.

Whatever God does today will be as significant as the parting of the Red Sea.

Removing a diamond on a rock is painful but it's more painful when it loses its value when it's not cherished, let alone shaping.

Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.