“Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine.”

“Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously. Not keep the eyes so narrowed down to the small dispairs.Those people who say forgive and forget, I say they not right. Not so simple. I say, find right medicine. Bitterness must be just right for problem. Then swallow it, think of good things can do when no longer sick.”

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.”

“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”

“A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.”

“Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.”