Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
The only limits you have are the limits you believe.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The beauty of literature lies in its ability to transcend time and space, connecting souls across different eras and cultures.
精金美玉般的品性，一定是经历过了，烈火一样的磨砺才修成的；惊天动地的大事业，必须要有履薄冰临深渊般的胆识和魄力，才能成就。
The dialogue between light and shadow creates architecture.
The novel is the great art form of the inner life.
States are inherently aggressive and expansionist because they exist in an anarchic international system where there is no higher authority to keep them in check.