The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

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

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

Suen Le! (it means, "Let it be.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

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.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

There’s no greater feeling that brings joy to the heart like peace because we can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

Taking action births motivation.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.