Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

Taiwan is a major economy.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

I’m looking for mushrooms. Giant ones, specifically of the deadly poisonous variety.”“How come?”“Monday is Teacher Appreciation Day, and I was thinking of making a nice quiche for Miss Keener.

The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.

I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash.

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.