The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you into something a little different from what it was before.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not.

如果谋虑不到，那么就根据过去推知未来（主要强调凭借经验），根据明显的事推知隐微的事。像这样谋虑，那么所谋必得（成功）。

金钱会说话，但我的一直只会说再见。