There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

He who has good health is young.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.

Zounds, Zounds, VI-I-IX!

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.