The truth is, we all have our own versions of reality, and sometimes those versions don't align with the facts.

天下人最能享受的是个“闲”字，但是闲适要从勤俭中得到。而天下最便宜的是个“勤”字，然而勤奋是从闲暇中做出。

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

故事是我们理解过去和想象未来的方式。

The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

We are all exiles in one way or another.

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.