The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

There's no such thing as a neutral image in our visual culture.

"The world is run by those who show up."

有了图书馆，你是自由的，不受暂时政治气候的限制。它是最民主的机构，因为没有人——绝对没有人——能告诉你该读什么、什么时候读以及如何读。

You have to be able to center yourself at all times. That's what makes a champion.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.