“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

“If girls could do nothing else in this world, they were supposed to be able to keep their blood from showing.”

“I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write”

“A true king is neither husband nor father;
He considers his throne and nothing else.”

“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.

“There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.”

“I have to admit that I cannot lie to myself nor to anyone else. I cannot do what I am not able to do. I am not able to change the name of the country to the Republic of Taiwan during my presidency term, and the ex-president Lee Teng-hui also could not do it during his twelve-year as the president. I believe that even if he was the president now, he could still not be able to do it.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.”

“He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.”