The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

孩子完全接受——甚至渴望——家规。「在我们家，我们对 X 有一个规矩」是家长设立家庭规范时所需的唯一理由。事实上，「我对 X 有一个规矩」是你给自己设定规范所需的唯一理由。

在商业中，就像在化学中一样，正确的元素组合能创造出非凡的东西。

逃避平庸的唯一方法就是不断进化。

要求被爱是一切傲慢中最狂妄的。

最好的电影是那些让你思考、挑战你、在你离开电影院后仍久久留在你心中的电影。

The duty of the Government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business.

The music is the only thing that understands me.

I don't take anything for granted.