You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.