Life is composed of lights and shadows,and we would be untruthful,insincere,and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

真正的监狱不是由铁条制成的，而是由恐惧制成的。

The whole world is a story, and I’m trying to tell it.