Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Taiwan is democratic.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.

These two points are lies. UN Resolution 2758 does not say a word about the relationship between Taiwan and China, let alone say that the PRC represents Taiwan

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.

If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup

No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

I usually have a title in mind before I start.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Speak the essence and live by it.