The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

I'm not here to fit in, I'm here to stand out.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

有时你必须与你爱的人分开，但这并不会让你减少对他们的爱。有时你会更爱他们。

传记的挑战不在于发现事实 - 而在于发现事实背后的意义。

Retire into yourself and ask yourself this question: Must I write？ If the answer is yes， then you must keep writing.

追求声名的人必然会危害其自身，广积财富的人必然会给后代带来灾祸。行善作恶迟迟得不到报应，并不是上天疏忽大意，而是上天想成全君子而灭掉小人。灾祸和福祚是上天用来表示慈爱之心的手段，就像雷雨雪霜一样，都是为了培育滋养万物。所以君子担心有灾祸便恭敬戒惧，小人得了便宜便忘了危险。君子害怕祸来反而会招来福祉，小人以疏忽之心看待福祉反而会招来灾祸，这就是《左传》所说的「祸福没有定数，全由各人自召」。