If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

"The best writing is that which makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar."

If you’re not making someone angry, you’re not doing it right.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Success is about enjoying the journey, not just the destination.

Even in the quietest lives, there is drama.

双重思想意味着在头脑中同时持有两种相互矛盾的信念，并接受它们两者。

I believe in hard work and persistence.

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.