"The beauty of books is that they can take you anywhere."
书籍的美妙之处在于它们可以带你去任何地方。
I don’t take no for an answer.
人们不买你做什么，而是买你为什么做。
Diplomacy is the art of restraining power.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how wide your cage was.