The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

Writing can be a source of strength-Wang Liang

Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

Basset Hounds never get scared. We’re fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop.

Curiosity leads to knowledge.Knowledge leads to understanding.Understanding leads to love.Love leads to harmony.Be curious.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.