Since the beginning of the 21st century thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits meetings telephone conversations and letters.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Respect your efforts respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt that's real power.

The less effort the faster and more powerful you will be.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e. 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'

Probably induced by the asthma I started reading and writing early on my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

So I suppose poetry language the shaping of it was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

And I mean I think poetry does need to be met to some extent especially I guess 19th century poetry and for me it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.