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

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

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.

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.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

If you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

It’s paying homage, very much, to that.

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

The good man makes others good.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.