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

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

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.

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.

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.

We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something

The true beauty of your life can only shine when your decisions and actions are in line with your true positive self.

The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.