民能载舟，亦能覆舟，大众的力量是决定性的。唐朝时，魏征用此观点来劝谏唐太宗，荀子的这句话是身居高位的人应该时刻铭记的。

If you want to be the best, you have to be able to handle the worst.

知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The best traders are those who can adapt to changing market conditions.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.