"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."

中国和其他威权国家的崛起挑战了自由民主是唯一可行政治制度的观念。

If you meddle in other people's marriages you may lose a friend, but acquire his wife.

希望是最后消亡的东西。

实践可以包含认识，但认识不能代替实践。

教育儿童，就不需要惩罚成年人。

The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.

这就是学习。你突然以一种新的方式理解了你一生都在理解的东西。

We are all made of star-stuff, and through physics, we seek to understand our origins.