Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

All birth is unwilling.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.