“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals

I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Don’t trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

I’m afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim.

You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.

But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English.

To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given.

You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night.

People with yuan fen are destined to like one another

In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the “all-chinese” sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

Suen Le! (it means, “Let it be.

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this:

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.