A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that... I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

中国的崛起将不可避免地导致与美国的冲突，因为它挑战了现有的权力平衡。

做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事情。如果你还没有找到，继续寻找。不要安于现状。

The state is the most important institution in human society because it is the only one that can legitimately use force to maintain order.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.