To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

If we had less people who don't know what they are talking about acting like they know what they are talking about, then that's one step closer to making the world a better place.

Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.

Becoming more socially aware involves greater understanding of the dynamics of social interactions to assure you achieve harmonious outcomes.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women