China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

The greatest evidence of what is inside of a seed is its fruit.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

I always try to write about believable people.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.