How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Mathematics is the key to understanding the universe.

我不会让恐惧阻止我。

未讲述的故事是未活过的生命；通过叙事，我们赋予存在以意义。

出自《海国图志序》。善于学习外国的长处，就能够征服外国;不善于学习外国的长处就会被外国所征服。

如果反对派解除武装，一切都好。如果他们拒绝解除武装，我们将亲自解除他们的武装。