质量会被长久记住，而价格很快被遗忘。

我们讲述的关于我们是谁以及我们从哪里来的故事塑造了我们的身份和命运。

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

The strength of a state is not just its ability to coerce, but its ability to provide services and maintain legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.'