Culture does not decline by being repressed； it declines by being trivialized.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

解释：阻塞老百姓的嘴，好比阻塞河水。河流如果堵塞后一旦再决堤，伤人一定很多，人民也是这样。不可堵塞民众的言论，不给他们发表自己想法的机会。如这样去做，将比堵塞江河带来的后果更严重。

The mining industry has a responsibility to leave a positive legacy for future generations.

The real violence is the violence we do to ourselves when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.

在你来得及描述它之前，一个瞬间就已经消逝了。

创意不是为了不同而不同，而是为了建立有意义的联系。

嗯，第一条规则是，如果你只是记住一些孤立的事实，然后试图把它们背出来，你是不可能真正知道任何东西的。如果事实不是挂在一个理论的格子架上，你就没有把它们变成一种可用的形式。