Bette Lord
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.Collection: Time
If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.Collection: Waiting
prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.Collection: Fate
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.Collection: Wish
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.Collection: Hands
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.Collection: Favors
you must not use wood to put out the fire.Collection: Fire
Principles have a way of yielding to power.Collection: Principles
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.Collection: Chinese
A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.Collection: Secret
What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?Collection: Dream