Half the skill of being educated is learning what you can ignore.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.

我最害怕的莫过于共和国分裂成两个大党，每个党都在其领导人的领导下，相互对立地制定措施。

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

我们在愿景上是固执的。我们在细节上是灵活的。

死者离我们从不遥远。他们在我们心中，在我们脑海里，最终将我们与他们分隔开的不过是一口气息，最后一缕空气。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.