I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything in life, you have to work for it.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

The biggest opportunities often hide in crises—the key is whether you can discover and seize them.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

人生最大的悲剧不是死亡，而是没有真正活过。