理解心智的功能就像绘制星图——模式揭示目的。

I don't think that when people grow up, they will become more broad-minded and can accept everything.Conversely, I think it's a selecting process, knowing what's the most important and what's the least. And then be a simple man.

The modern state is characterized by its ability to concentrate and use power in a way that premodern states could not.

I don’t sleep because I’m too busy dreaming.

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.