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

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.

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.

The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed.

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us

You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies

You can pick my flower but my roots will remain and I will keep blooming – there is no stopping me now.

It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say