[Patients] were being regarded more for the intellectual challenges they posed than being seen as human beings who are suffering... I realized I didn't want to take care of patients that way.

I learned how to give bad news by making mistakes, and I said a lot of things that I regretted later. There was one patient who asked me, 'Am I dying?,' and I just said, 'Yes.' I would never say that now.

China Telecom is suffering selling pressure this morning, but otherwise selling is not too strong.

This one is going to be shown in museums. It's an art film.

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny.