Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.

True vehement love is at the opposite side of sanity.

Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about - the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact.

Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.