China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

China has its own Baby Boom generation. And China's baby boom generation, because of the size of China itself, is the world's largest baby boom generation.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.

Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

Education is not life planning, it is life.

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career It has turned out a whole lot better than I ever, ever, ever dreamed.

People will tell you that you cant do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.