所以,储备是国家最重要的事；粮食是国家的宝物；武器是国家的利爪；城池是守卫国家的屏障。

I don’t play for the money or the fame, I play for the passion.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.