It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.

China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.

When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don’t give up!

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

We'll always have art, darling.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.