My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. 

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.