The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.
You are no different than anybody else is.
我并非天生失明，而是在12岁时失去视力，但我从未觉得自己是个受害者。
过去从未真正消失；它在我们讲述的故事中继续存在。
沉默是上帝的语言，而我们诗人则是它的诠释者。
Old soldiers never die. They just fade away.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.