过去是一个陌生的国度；他们在那里做事的方式不同。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
民能载舟，亦能覆舟，大众的力量是决定性的。唐朝时，魏征用此观点来劝谏唐太宗，荀子的这句话是身居高位的人应该时刻铭记的。
"To live is to be haunted by the ghosts of what might have been."
中心地的规模和分布并非偶然，而是遵循一定的规律。
The writer must be a traitor to all forms of tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority.
生命中最伟大的光辉不在于永不坠落，而在于坠落后总能再度升起。
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.