I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

Taiwan is a major economy.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.