我们不是从祖先那里继承了地球，而是从子孙那里借来的。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

生活中最重要的是不要停止提问。好奇心有其存在的理由。

永远不要满足于现状，始终追求更好。

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

欧洲的统一是历史的必然。

没有比一个除了优柔寡断之外没有任何习惯的人更悲惨的了。

诗歌是一面映照灵魂的镜子。