Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried wit...
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.