In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

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.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.