"This eerie, silent night, this round of perfect peace, This song of gratitude that rises in my throat – And at once t…"

"On 15 July 1946 he addressed a public meeting in memory of Li Gongpu, a Democratic League leader shot by the Guominda…"

"宁為太平犬，莫作亂离人！"

"His love is distant as the stars in Heaven, Yet the sunflower bends toward the sun."

"How sad it is to be a woman! Nothing on earth is held so cheap."

"Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift: Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster."

"There are no new ideas, only those which rhyme with certain classics."

"However the sentences branch and spread, they grow out of well-placed phrases."

"A single note from the lute, however beautiful, is not music."

"It is like following a branch to find the trembling leaves, like following a stream to find the spring."