Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

Our words must seem to be inevitable.