The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

小小的善举比你可能预期的更能提升你的情绪。

大萧条是20世纪历史上的一个决定性时刻，理解其原因和后果仍然是经济学家的一项重要任务。

I never stop believing in myself.