“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.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

None of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn’t do it long term.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.