促使人们倾向于和平的激情是对死亡的恐惧，对舒适生活必需品的渴望，以及通过自己的努力获得这些的希望。
The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.
不要害怕失败，因为失败是成功的垫脚石。
安全不是成本——它是对我们最宝贵资源（人）的投资。
人类并非在母亲生下他们的那一天就一劳永逸地诞生了，生活迫使他们一次又一次地重生自己。
分散化既是被观察到的也是明智的；任何不隐含分散化优势的行为规则，无论是作为假设还是格言，都必须被拒绝。
Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself.
"The challenge of acting is to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances."