"The little things are infinitely the most important."

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

大钱不在买卖中，而在等待中。

变革在中间阶段最为艰难。