The poor are not just passive victims; they are active agents trying to navigate a difficult world.

There is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead. Somehow, I got that idea and I lived with it all my life and it’s been very very useful to me.

勤俭了就有了约束，有约束了就会各种好事都做；奢侈就放肆，放肆则各种坏事都泛滥。