The best decisions are made when we listen to diverse perspectives.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

Literature should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

书籍是人类经验的地图。