国家一定要有直言进谏的臣子，上级必须有敢于提出反对意见的下级，议论国政的人不停止，各种不同政见的人相互辩论，才可以长久保存国家，使国家兴盛强大。也就是说言论自由是民众的基本权利，每个人都可以提出不同的政见，民众有平等参与政治的权利。

可持续性必须成为我们开采每一块石料的核心，否则我们什么也不该开采。

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

We cannot not know history.

我们必须投资于下一代农民——他们掌握着粮食的未来。