人是他所相信的样子。

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

重要的不是你如何跌倒，而是你如何重新站起来。

统治者的首要职责是保护社会免受其他独立社会的暴力和侵略，只有通过军事力量才能实现这一职责。

To be human is to be in constant negotiation with chaos.

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.