一个人的计划与实践存在太大的落差即是疯狂的表现。

国君得到了我的学说，就必然会采用。 

优秀与卓越之间的区别在于多走一英里。

The real discovery is the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy when I want to.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.