A good book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.

The best leaders are those who listen more than they speak.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all power.

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

仁就是爱人，以亲近自己的亲族为最重要；义就是适宜，以尊重贤能的人为最重要。