创造性力量很容易变成破坏性力量。这只取决于人们的道德人格：是用此力量做好事或做坏事。如果人们缺乏这种道德人格，则没有一种说教能够提供它或取而代之。

Education is the transmission of civilization.

海洋养育了我们，我们有责任确保以关怀和尊重回馈它。

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized."

I think the best thing you can do is to be true to yourself and to be honest with yourself.

It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.