自由民主的传播伴随着全球文化的传播，这种文化越来越同质化。

大海不拒绝各种各样的水，所以才能成就它的博大；大山不拒绝形形色色的土石，所以才能成就它的高峻；贤明的君主不嫌弃百姓，所以能够聚集众多的臣民；读书人不厌倦学习，所以能达到圣贤的境界。

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Leadership is about making tough decisions today that will benefit everyone tomorrow.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees would face a future with even less hope.