人的本性是天生的质朴；善良是王道教化的结果。

我认为过去的成绩非常重要。如果你从早就开始努力在一些简单的事情上，比如诚实，拥有一个完美的记录，你就已经在这个世界上走上了成功的道路。

I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.

"The act of reading is an act of resistance against the noise of the world."