Never complain and never explain.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
It's always too early to quit.
Know or listen to those who know.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.