Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity

We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart!

If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.