我们曾有过残暴的国王，也有过愚蠢的国王。但我真不知道是造了什么孽才有了这有一个又残暴又愚蠢的国王。

When you’re young, you presume there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

We must balance short-term demands with long-term sustainability.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.