Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.