I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Even if you play perfectly a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

You may keep your beauty and your health unless you destroy them yourself or discourage them to stay with you by using them ill.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty even one's own even more one's own for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war but to all other factors that threaten peace such as discrimination such as inequality poverty.

History has remembered the kings and warriors because they destroyed art has remembered the people because they created.

I don't watch television I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

After a few months in my parents' basement I took an apartment near the state university where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

In the practical art of war the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I have no fear of making changes destroying the image etc. because the painting has a life of its own.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.