For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of worth in our lifetime.

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

Believe that you are capable of achieving your dreams.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

Even if you're fat, one thing always fits: shoes.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.