Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Leap, and the net will appear.
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.