China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Every wall is a door.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

There is no education like adversity.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.