You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair
I have no enemies and no hatred
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.
Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!