The most effective way to promote democracy is not through military intervention but through the slow and steady process of building institutions and promoting economic development.

法律的概念本质上是一个社会事实问题。

至少我能为那些无法发声的生命发声。

"The dead are as real as the living, but in a different way."

艺术不是反映现实的镜子，而是塑造现实的锤子。

我从未对建筑的社会方面感兴趣。

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up.

A library is a cemetery of living books, each one waiting to be resurrected by a reader.