The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

Technology must ultimately serve people and improve the quality of human life.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

We are not selling water, we are selling health.

你无法控制发生在你身上的事情，但你可以控制你如何回应。

我们阅读是为了知道自己并不孤单。

I don't need a reason to be kind.

我们不是在创造物体，而是在创造场所。

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

在对人类心理史的研究中，这一事实给人以深刻印象：心智的成长就是意识范围的扩展，前进的每一步都是伴随着极度痛苦和艰难的成就。几乎可以说，人们最最痛恨的就是放弃潜意识，即使所放弃的仅是极微小的一点潜意识。试图引入新观念的人对此深有体会。