No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition， when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security， is so powerful a principle that it is alone， and without any assistance， not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

建筑师必须是一个工匠。

我不是来竞争的，我是来统治的。

"Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well."

The sensible world is an image of the intellectual.