The land does not forget its people.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

在你年老之前，尽可能多地参加你能承受的葬礼，并仔细倾听。没有人会谈论逝者的成就。人们唯一会记得的是你在取得成就时是个什么样的人。

文明所能达到的最高境界是无缝的信任之网--没有太多的程序，只有完全可靠的人们正确地相互信任......

The study of psychology is the study of life's problem-solving mechanisms.