"The power of literature lies in its ability to make the invisible visible."

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

最痛苦的并非痛苦本身，而是孤独地承受痛苦。

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community， against his will， is to prevent harm to others.