"Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color."

“A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.”

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

“Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.”

“I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.”

“Lawyers are natural politicians.”

“It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.”

“Watch their hands, watch their eyes.  Read eyes.  No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes.  The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.”

“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.