The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The truth is often hidden in the simplest things.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
The greatest killer of happiness is comparison. If you must compare, compare yourself to you yesterday
我们不能选择自己的心。我们不能让自己想要对我们或对别人有益的东西。
偏见是愚人用来代替理智的东西。
全球金融合作的可持续性在于国家利益与系统稳定性的平衡。
L'avenir, c'est l'éternité plus un jour.