If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.