What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Always stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

The goal we have set for ourselves, which is to diversify our cooperation with China, is making progress.