The most successful states in the 21st century will be those that can combine the efficiency of markets with the fairness of democratic institutions.

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the human personality.

We are all searching for something, but we don't know what it is.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The most exciting breakthroughs come from questioning the status quo.

每个人的生命结局都是一样的。彼此的差异只在于是怎样的生又是怎样的死这些细节上面。

Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée. Il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, impossible de le trouver ailleurs.