Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

If you can’t laugh at your life, then your life is a punchline in a bad joke.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

All's fair if you have a really good attorney.

It's very nice to be a sort of normal person for once; I think it's about as normal as I'm going to get.

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!