"I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free."

"If someone needs the "unusual" to be moved to astonishment, that person has lost the ability to respond rig…"

"You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and …"

"We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we …"

"At the time we didn’t make any satisfactory progress, but we at the Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry and…"

"...but society called them professors, and professors they had to be. While all these brilliant men were gr…"

"People who commit murder in Taiwan should be sent back to the country for trial, period.'"