The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

文字的力量可以改变世界。

The future belongs to those who understand that doing good and doing well are not mutually exclusive.

自由民主可能构成“人类意识形态演化的终点”和“人类政府的最终形式”。

我们无法仅依靠理性来认识因果关系。

我越是坚定地作为自己存在于时代的条件中，我就越清晰地听到过去的语言，越感受到普遍历史的呼吸。

最重要的是要忠于自己和你所扮演的角色。