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!

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

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is investing in that moment in the way that you can really feel the passion.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The key to success is to stay clean at all times.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.