I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

A lot can be done, but not everyone immediately succeeds in everything.