The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Change isn’t closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new.

Tears don’t make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.