The best way to predict the future is to design it.

【译文】 孔子说：“读书不想事，越学越糊涂；想事不读书，越想越头痛。”

The most important political development of the last half century has been the spread of liberal democracy around the world.

只有那些冒险走得太远的人才能发现一个人能走多远。

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how wide your cage was.