平凡与非凡的区别就在于那一点额外的努力。

Never stop learning because the world never stops changing.

The consistency of your endeavors (exercise， companionship， work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day， which is way more important than what you do occasionally.

Writing is a way of bearing witness to the world.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

The great philosophers are those who have made a difference in the way we think about the world and our place in it.