Life is too short to be little.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react." (p.180)

...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

Outcome is not vital! All what matters is your effort and devotion towards it...!!

A wrong was just righted. Take care of my best friend.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.