"We are all prisoners of our own making, trapped by the stories we tell ourselves."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

解释：治理河道，要用疏导的办法使其通畅；治理百姓，要引导百姓使其敢言。

材料是有记忆的，它们承载着时间和故事。

"The desert teaches you that emptiness can be full of meaning, if only you learn to read the silence."

能够使我们成为现在的我们的唯一因素将是对类似我们的东西的感知。