All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word， all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

质量从来不是偶然的；它始终是智慧努力的结果。

平凡与非凡的区别在于那一点点额外的努力。

今天对自由民主最严重的威胁不是来自共产主义或法西斯主义等敌对意识形态，而是来自内部——来自民粹主义的兴起和民主规范的侵蚀。