That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

以这样奢侈的国君,去统治那些爱好奢侈的臣民,想要国家不动乱,是不可能的。

激励措施的微小变化可以导致行为的巨大变化。

真正的全球化不是关于在哪里生产，而是关于在哪里思考。

在计算中，将显而易见的东西转化为有用的东西是“挫折”这个词的生动定义。

"The only thing that is truly eternal is the human spirit."

文学之美在于其超越时空的能力，连接不同时代和文化的灵魂。