If you ever leave me I'll go with you.

Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Do not despise the water droplets that you receive, soon it will be a river.

The vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.