When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Let's fly away and live forever