关爱别人的人，别人也必定会关爱他；给别人利益的人，别人也必定会给他利益；憎恶别人的人，别人也必定憎恶他；残害别人的人，别人也必定残害他。 

States are rational actors, and they will always act in their own self-interest.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

没有天赋的艺术家什么都不是，但没有工作的天赋也什么都不是。

做一个良善的先人。做一些让未来世代感激你的事情。其中一件简单的事情就是去种一棵树。

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.