The spiritual life is not a life of negation, but of affirmation.

I'm just a kid trying to live my dreams

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

世界上最成功的社会是那些结合了国家和市场优势的社会。

太阳在天空中闪耀，眼前没有一片云彩。

The economy of the future is one where growth is decoupled from the consumption of finite resources.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.