It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Values are the definition of our actions in life
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.