Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

最好的投资是那些能够改变世界的人。

I think I'm afraid to be happy...because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.