"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning."

"Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran."

"Oistrakh's playing was not so much marked by brilliance, but by richness, lyricism, roundness of tone; the unbelievable sharp and clear contact between string and bow, his ability to lengthen the bow …"

"We know what it is to get out of bed on a freezing morning in a room without a fire, and how the very vital principle within us protests against the idea. Probably most persons have lain on certain mo…"

"Honestly, from the experience of SARS , if the situation is so serious, no one will go to a casino ."