Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
Leadership means making tough decisions today for a better tomorrow.
If you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?
一种不给任何东西、不花任何代价、不承受任何痛苦的宗教，是毫无价值的。
我不在乎排名。我在乎的是打好比赛。
我可不想成为乔丹第二，我只想成为科比-布莱恩特。
我看到了，我忘记了；我听到了，我记住了；我做过了，我理解了。
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.