I think the best thing you can do is to be true to yourself.

如果你对一个问题的看法可以从你对另一个问题的看法中预测出来，你已经受制于一种意识形态。实际上当你真正独立地思考一个问题，你的结论无法被预测。

While statistics say that 95 percent of all young men who enter business fail, this should not discourage any one. Go out with the spirit “sink or swim,”and a person will not sink.

行为不仅仅是对刺激的反应，而是由期望和目的引导的。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The historian’s task is to bring the dead to life.