Leadership means having the courage to make tough decisions today for a better tomorrow.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I believe in the power of the individual to change society.

历史学家必须与其研究对象有某种亲缘关系。死者不会开口，除非你以恰当的方式呼唤他们。

未来属于那些能够适应和进化的人。

For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.

The great thing is to be in love with life.

We must listen to the land—it tells us what it needs.

"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."