My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.