“Ordinary people can be heroes too,' he said, 'if they want to be.”

“Only later-looking back through the years-do we come to realise those ordinary choices are often the critical turning point in our destiny.”

“How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that's when you're at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that's when you find within the greatest strength of all.”

“There is yet time for all that is to come.”

“The attics of the mind hold onto their dusty secrets and free them at inappropriate moments.”

“Today's news is tomorrow's history.”

“I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know. Now I feel a reporter should be able to effect change. Your reporting should move people and motivate people to change the world. Maybe this is too idealistic. Young people who want to be journalists must, first, study and, second, recognize that they should never be the heroes of the story. ..A journalist must be curious, and must be humble. --Zhou Yijun”