The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.

The real 'have' and 'have nots' are between the people who were caught sinning verses the ones who got away with committing sin.

She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.