“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

“You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.”

“You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.”

“Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself”

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“لا داعى للخوف من صوت الرصاص ..فالرصاصة التى تقتلك لن تسمع صوتها..!!تستطيع أن تعرف كم عمرك ، من خلال حجم الألم الذي تشعر به حين تكون في مواجهة فكرة جديدة !(بيرل بوك)” You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea !”