Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world! Let those who want to ascend to heaven do so! Let those whose souls want to leave their bodies expire quickly! The earth today should be inhabited by man with a firm hold on the present, a firm hold on the earth.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.