If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship， he would keep it in port forever.

我这一代人最伟大的发现是，人类可以通过改变心态来改变他们的生活。

To be a writer is to be a professional observer.

The rocks we extract today build the infrastructure of tomorrow.

Willpower is not virtue, but directional detonation of neural impulses.

晏子春秋

我们不是从祖先那里继承了海洋，而是从子孙那里借来的。

语言是思想的翅膀，诗歌是它们最高的飞翔。

Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."

20年的韵事使女人变成一片废墟，20年的婚姻使女人变成一座公共建筑。