It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

The study of cognition is the study of how human beings understand their world.

译文：一个人要是喜欢在众人面前争个长短，那么他必定会在背后说人的是非。赏析：喜欢争长短的人，大多自私自利，刻薄寡恩，一旦别人伤害他的利益时，他就会说三道四。

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

真正的领导者是那些能够预见未来并提前布局的人。