lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.