To write a life is to walk a tightrope between fact and interpretation.
历史中的优点似乎有三种,一种是来自气候和国家的纯粹地理位置,一种是来自政府形式和人民性格,一种是来自那些更细致的哲学原则和道德,可以称为哲学的推荐。
如果没有传统农业知识的智慧,农业中最先进的技术也是无用的。
没有坚强意志品质的人学识智慧也不会通达;不遵守诺言的人行动也不会实现。
"A book is a door. You open it. You step through."
You have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.