We recognized early on that smart people do very dumb things, and we wanted to know why and who, so that we could avoid them.
我们很早就认识到，聪明人会做非常愚蠢的事情，我们想知道为什么，是谁，这样我们就能避免这些事情。
"The Middle East is not just a geography, it's an open wound in the body of history that keeps bleeding stories."
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
我本就一无所有，所以没什么可失去的。
【译文】 子贡说：“贫穷却不阿谀奉承，富贵却不狂妄自大，怎样？”孔子说：“可以。不如穷得有志气，富得有涵养的人。”子贡说：“修养的完善，如同玉器的加工：切了再磋，琢了再磨，对吧？”孔子说：“子贡啊，现在可以与你谈诗了。说到过去，你就知道未来。”
I don't think about being the best. I think about being better than yesterday.
"The only thing that is truly endless is the human journey."