No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.

Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.

It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.