You have to be able to adapt to changing market conditions. If you can't adapt, you won't survive.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor about yourself and not take yourself too seriously.

韩寒：“其实说穿了，教师只是一种职业，是养家糊口的一个途径，和出租车司机，清洁工没有本质的区别。”

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.