I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.