When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

You're the way, you are the light. Let's go to illuminate the world.

Commitment is a thing of choice

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

There is no hell, there's only France

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.