The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

The silence between brushstrokes holds more truth than the painting itself.

富贵荣华如同眼前短暂绽放的花朵，何必为此自寻烦恼。

海洋养育了数十亿人，我们有责任确保它能继续这样做。