I’m so sorry to do this to you,” she whispered tenderly. “I’m so sorry we are too poor to buy you a toy car.

I truly believe that the ultimate measure of one’s success in life is not what position you have occupied or how much money you have, but what kind of person you have become, what difference you have made to the people around you.

The Americans’ happy smiles also made us nervous. This is not what it is supposed to be like. Something is wrong here. They are our enemies. Behind those smiling faces will be a hidden agenda. I’ll find out what it is soon, I said to myself.

I had now tasted freedom, and I couldn’t lie to myself about that.

I'm so sorry to do this to you," she whispered tenderly. "I'm so sorry we are too poor to buy you a toy car.