"The truth is, we all carry our prisons within us."

【释义】选拔任用人才，确实是国家的当务之急。

If you’re not willing to take risks, you’re not going to achieve anything extraordinary.

Every novel is a mirror held up to society, reflecting its beauty and its flaws.

平安之中隐藏着危险，卧席之上可能有剧毒，日常衣食小事有可能导致败落之祸。

自由民主可能构成“人类意识形态演化的终点”和“人类政府的最终形式”。

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.