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.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

There is no substitute for merit.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I think government can't do much.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.