一个国家的价值，从长远来看，就是它所组成的个体的价值。

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle, and best at the end.

The main task in life is to give birth to ourselves, to become what we potentially are.

The individual is reduced to a negligible quantity, perhaps less in his consciousness than in his habits and in the unconscious adjustments of his life.