The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.

Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

I need attention?No...I need victim....!

One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream

When I waked, I cried to dream again