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

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.

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.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent.

She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

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

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

That doesn’t mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

And its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism).

I’m only the messenger.

During the first show, I was like, “Wow, I’m onstage with Ms. Tyson!”

Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.