过去半个世纪最重要的政治发展是自由民主在世界范围内的传播。
每个想法都有其运动结果。
The best ideas often come from the most unexpected places.
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
只要完全消除对尘世的眷恋之情，那么心灵之镜就会明亮澄彻，所以从外部关注自己的影像，不如从内部进行自我省察，驱除庸俗的念头；只要看破红尘，打消对如梦幻泡影一样的世事的执著之念，那么自身天性就会像明珠一样晶莹剔透，熠熠生辉，要做世间少有的通达超脱之人，最关键的还是要保护好自家内心的那一份纯真。
"Memory is a sort of punishment for those who have survived."