The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Spiritual ignorance helps nobody.

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.

As Christians, we're supposed to be the salt of the earth, not the filler.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.