The Government of the United States is a definite Government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

塑造我们生活的不是我们偶尔做的事情，而是我们持续做的事情。

The difference between good and great is in the details.