"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

"There are no small lives, only small perspectives."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.

Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.

出自先秦《荀子·非十二子》。尊重贤能的人，是“仁”的表现，鄙视道德不好的人，也是“仁”的表现。说明“仁”正反两个方面的标准。

Mining with integrity means leaving the land better than we found it.