To be a writer is to be a witness.

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel—whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art—through the gigantic spaces of the world.

Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.

The biographer's task is to resurrect the past, not to judge it.

长期成功的关键不仅在于做出正确的决定，还在于从错误中学习。