The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你对某样东西足够在意，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而事物的全部意义——美丽的事物——不就是它们将你连接到更大的美吗？

Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."

解读：智慧并非单纯知识堆砌，而是精准权衡事物各要素关系，做出客观、公平评判，不夸大不缩小，正确抉择。

"We have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over with lessons learned."