I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

Success is made of 99% failure.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.