The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing

We exist in the world of books.

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

Our country is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore.

Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

You can run I will chase you. You can hide I will find you. We're gonna fight and I'm gonna hurt you.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.