一个人和他想要的生活之间唯一的障碍往往只是尝试的意愿和相信它可能的信念。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

Sometimes you have to be knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand back up taller than you ever were.

我们必须平衡当今对可负担能源的需求与建设可持续能源未来的必要性。