历史实际上不过是人类罪行、愚蠢和不幸的记录册。

如果人们不能相信他们的政府做它该做的事，保护他们和促进他们的共同福利——那我们就完全失败了。

Patience is the most important skill in life.

Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say "Well it's only symbolic that women are nature", it's like no, it's not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can't get more like nature than that, in fact it's the very definition of nature.

创造力的发动机是提出一个问题：“一定要这样吗？” 政治改革、科学发展、关系改善以及更好的书都是提出这个问题后出现的。《哲学的慰藉》

When you’re young, you presume there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

文学是一种面对无法言说之事的方式，为无声者发声。

一个组织的可持续性质量决定了其遗产的质量。