Children totally accept — and crave — family rules. “In our family we have a rule for X” is the only excuse a parent needs for setting a family policy. In fact， “I have a rule for X” is the only excuse you need for your own personal policies.
孩子完全接受——甚至渴望——家规。「在我们家，我们对 X 有一个规矩」是家长设立家庭规范时所需的唯一理由。事实上，「我对 X 有一个规矩」是你给自己设定规范所需的唯一理由。
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
To write is to explore the unknown territories of the self.
When a person has value, they will serve you like an emperor.
The world is a place of shadows, and we are the ghosts that walk through them.
If something fails where you thought it would fail， that is not a failure.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts.