China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.

Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the idea deep into people's hearts.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

Greatness is the flower of great adversity.

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Are you calling me your gift?" "Yes." She smiled. "How do you feel about that?" "Like it's my turn to be unwrapped." He nibbled at her mouth. "Do it slow.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.