Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. 

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backwards.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

Mother's milk is available only to the offsprings of mammals. Birds, insects, aquatic beings and many other life forms have other own ways of feeding their young.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less. 

You feed your depressive thoughts through overthinking.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.