The most sustainable forests are those where local communities have both a stake and a voice.

The rules of art are not arbitrary; they are founded in reason and in the nature of things.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

The only thing that I'm addicted to is winning.

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

如果你出生贫穷，那不是你的错。但如果你死时仍然贫穷，那就是你的错。