Thought travels faster than light, for it traverses time dimensions in an instant.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

The process is the purpose.

对圣贤的道理教导别人很容易，自己实践却是不容易的事。对圣贤的道理开始奋斗很容易，但坚持到底却很难。圣贤的道理与实践相结合，行仁政必本与德性。后代则相反，学问与实践不能统一，不修持自己的德性，而只管治理别人。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

Never underestimate the power of small improvements—they compound over time.

I'm the reason your stars won't twinkle.

We need to design policies that work with human psychology, not against it.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.