你给国王的越多，他想要的就越多。

民主的未来取决于民主社会自我改革的能力。

来吧，一旦你觉得自己懂得了什么，就必须换一种角度来看。这可能显得很荒唐或者愚蠢，但必须试一下。

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

I’m grateful for every experience, good or bad, because it shaped me.

——临终时对孔祥熙说，1925年3月