大国总是在寻找机会以牺牲对手为代价来获取权力，如果他们认为使用武力会带来利益，他们就会使用武力。
The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.
唯一阻止你得到你想要的东西的是你一直在告诉自己的故事。
The best stories are those that haunt you.
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions， a few of which I had thought about， some of which I had sort of stumbled on， and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
忠于自己，永远不要让别人说的话分散你对目标的注意力。
离愁浩荡随着夕阳西下，挥鞭东指便是天涯。
The novel is the highest example of subtle inter-relatedness that man has discovered.