We're told, from many sources, that any onecan achieve anything. We've done away with the caste system, we are now in a system where anyone can rise to any position they please. And it's a beautiful idea. Along with that is a kind of spirit of equality; we're all basically equal. There are no strictly defined hierarchies. There is one really big problem with this, and that problem is envy.

对民主最危险的威胁是对制度信任的侵蚀。

你做什么比你怎么做重要得多。

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of grass, one would have to make a diagram of the universe.

I'm not afraid to take an idea to the extreme.