The decline of trust in institutions is one of the most serious problems facing modern democracies.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

We are all prisoners of our own perceptions.

民主的力量在于尊重差异并找到共同点。

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The value of unpaid work is often invisible in economic measures, yet it is the backbone of society.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.