The only thing that’s keeping me alive is the music.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

"Die Kunst des Schreibens besteht darin, die Welt so zu beschreiben, wie sie ist, und gleichzeitig so, wie sie sein könnte."

The future belongs to companies that can simplify complex things.

发现的道路很少是一条直线。

谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。

夜晚是一座伟大的剧院，但星星是它的演员。

The international system is inherently competitive, and states are constantly trying to outmaneuver each other.

儿童书籍应该既是一面镜子，也是一扇窗户。