爱护自己的体面不如注重廉耻；求医用药不如善养性情；结党营私不如昭示信义；作威作福不如诚恳笃实；过多的表白不如谨小慎微；巧取声名不如矫正自己心念；恣意于奢侈恣逸，不如从名教中自取其乐；安置田宅不如给儿孙多施家教。

"The power of a story is in its ability to inspire change in the world."

诗歌的美在于其模糊性。

The world needs to hear this guy. He's helped me discover a whole other side of myself that's been present all along but not acknowledged by me.

我们都是自己记忆的囚徒。

在沙漠的中心，我找到了我灵魂的海洋。

The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.