尊敬自己的长辈，从而推广到尊敬别人的长辈；爱护自己的儿女，从而推广到爱护别人的儿女。

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

每一本书都是一次旅程，每一次旅程都是一本书。

There are tracts in my life that are bare and silent. They are the open spaces where my busy days had their light and air.

对习俗和法律的遵从很容易成为对谎言的掩饰，这种掩饰极为巧妙，令人无法察觉。它可以使我们逃避所有的批评，它甚至能够使我们欺骗自己，令我们相信自己是 显然正当的。但是无论他的正当性得到多少公众舆论或道德准则的支持，在内心深处、在普通人的意识层次之下，他仍听到一个低低的声音：“哪儿有点不正常”。