Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.