文学有能力弥合分歧，促进来自不同背景的人们之间的共情。
我的父亲是我最好的朋友和最伟大的榜样。
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy， in our age， can do for those who study it.
In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
——1896年，伦敦蒙难后许多人问孙：“我们看到你，你这位先生的革命事业不知道失败过多少次了，为什么还不丧气，总是这么热心呢？这是什么理由呢？”