The rise of China and other authoritarian states challenges the idea that liberal democracy is the only viable political system.

Real music comes from the heart, not for show.

你们要如何运用这些天赋呢？你们会为自己的天赋感到骄傲，还是会为自己的选择感到骄傲？

"Maybe it's good to not know exactly how everything will turn out."

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

The Langlands program is a framework for understanding the deeper structures of mathematics.

The only secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

我不是早起的人，我是夜猫子。