But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent, " the Burgrave reflected. "But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.

the government bailed out the corporate sector. while the people thay supported the government financally, were ignored and left to fend for themselves. is this what you call democracy?

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day, ' and I loved it.

But every one belongs to every one else

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City manager)