There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.