The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens.

The most important thing is to be passionate about what you do.

Sometimes a thing is broken and cannot be put back together.

Sustainability isn't an option—it's a necessity if we want to feed a growing population without destroying our planet.

当人们快乐时，他们不会注意到是冬天还是夏天。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.