Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

Stable growth ensures employment.

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.

I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.