要理解现在，我们必须理解过去。

One’s attitude to oneself is the single most important factor in living a long and reasonably happy life.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

保持简单，简单的事情重复做。

A society that does not value its intellectuals is doomed to fail.