世界充满了神奇的事物，耐心地等待着我们的感官变得更加敏锐。

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Evolutionary psychology is not about what's unchangeable in human nature, but about what was adaptive in our ancestral environment.

在危机时刻，真正的领导者不是通过寻求权力，而是通过服务他人来展现自己。

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community， against his will， is to prevent harm to others.