"I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."

“Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.”

“I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.”

“Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.”

“All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.”

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage

“A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.”

“The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.”

“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”