唯一比被人议论更糟糕的事是没人议论你。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
Literature is the most powerful antidote to dogma.
常识告诉我们，一个试图征服我们的国家是所有国家中最不适合保卫我们的。
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
有其父，必有其子。
Failure is just another way to learn.