The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

Taiwan is a major economy.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

No writer can be the ‘Master of the Words’ without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.