War is an ugly thing， but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war， is much worse.

The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.

The character of a building is determined by the way it is used, not by its appearance.

秩序：物归其位，事有定期。

活着就是对意外持开放态度。