Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He does not wish to sign His name.
I believe that one can write a great opera with real characters, real emotions, and real situations.
言语可以是伤口,也可以是绷带。
Diplomacy is a means to achieve national interests, but it should also respect the principles of peace, justice, and rule of law.
The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.
Freedom is not the power to do what we want, but the right to do what we ought.