有利的时机和气候不如有利的地势，有利的地势不如人的齐心协力。

在自然状态下，所有人确实生而平等，但他们不能保持这种平等。社会使他们失去了这种平等，他们只有通过法律的保护才能重新获得它。

When I was 29, I told myself the next acting job I get, no matter what it pays, I will from now on for better or worse, be a working actor.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

"A culture of principled entrepreneurship drives sustainable success."

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.