Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."

"A writer’s duty is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

对抗压力的最强大武器是我们选择一个思想而非另一个的能力。

一个人性格的深度和力量是由其道德储备决定的。人们只有在被抛出他们生活的惯常条件时才会完全显露自己，因为只有那时他们才不得不依靠自己的储备。

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

基因组是时光机。

唱歌的时候，我希望能传递正能量。