China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.

China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

History is the archaeology of the present and future.

To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.

This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

China is constantly reinventing itself and so is the United States.

God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.

I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.

I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.