If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Silence is so freaking loud

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

God’s greatness is beyond human understanding.

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.