The most successful societies in the world are those that have been able to combine the strengths of the market with the strengths of a strong state.

看见先于言语。孩子在能说话之前就已经在看和辨认了。

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tips of my words.