A sober looks shows that just have the world gotten to be a better place after all; it is also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.; a one step up, a one step back sort of cosmic balance between forward progress, and cultural retreat, that puts man kind on a bell curve of existence.

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in one.

我们必须停止空谈改变，开始行动。

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.