She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

孔子说：“管理国家要以身做则。如同北极星，安然不动而众星绕之。”

保持好奇心并在整个生命中不断学习是很重要的。

四勿：“非礼勿视，非礼勿听，非礼勿言，非礼勿动。”四端：“恻隐之心，仁之端也；羞恶之心，义之端也；辞让之心，礼之端也；是非之心，智之端也。”颜渊的“四勿”，要牢记心里；下工夫闲静存诚，克服外部的干扰以修养心性；孟子的“四端”，要尽力扩充，下工夫格物致知，由近及远，推己及人。

万物有本然，终不为他者。