If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

如果你放弃所有让你想活到一百岁的东西，你就可以活到一百岁。

"Stories are the way we pass on our humanity."

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them - and then, the opportunity to choose.