Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Spiritual ignorance helps nobody.

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.

As Christians, we're supposed to be the salt of the earth, not the filler.

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.

Love transcends dimensions of time and space.

If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough.

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.