The balance of power is the only way to maintain peace in the international system.

你在20多岁时做出的选择将塑造你未来几十年的生活。

The only way to truly understand someone is to listen to them without judgment.

I don't want to wake up in the morning and think, 'I'm going to work to make money.' I want to wake up and think, 'I'm going to work because I love what I do.'

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

True understanding comes from seeing connections between seemingly unrelated ideas.