"If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong."

“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”

“The second you go back to eating right, you're going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!”

“Love for coworkers, love for customers, love for the product and love for self. Walt Disney instilled all of these "loves" in his company. Each of these factors is critical to achieving success in any organization.”

“When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.”

Source : L.J. Smith (2008). “Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

“Obviously I think it's really important to look back at your history, and that's why I think things like Pride are important. It's not necessarily about your experience of life, it's not about whether you find it difficult to be gay; it's about the fact that people have fought over hundreds of years for this to be okay, and also that there are many countries in the world where it's still not, and it's very dangerous to be gay.”

“A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.”