颜渊感叹地说：“老师的学问越仰望越觉得高耸，越钻研越觉得深厚；看着就在前面，忽然却在后面。老师步步引导，用知识丰富我，用礼法约束我，想不学都不成。

To write poetry is to capture the essence of life in words.

The quality of a country's institutions is the most important determinant of its success.

The worst thing about war is that it makes people get used to death.

A story is a way of understanding the world.