"The past is always with us, whether we acknowledge it or not."

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

Diplomacy is the art of restraining power.

那些疯狂到认为自己可以改变世界的人，才是那些真正改变世界的人。

我非常相信你是什么样的人取决于你周围的人这个观点。

解释：第一次击鼓能振作士兵们的勇气，第二次击鼓可以使士兵们的勇气低落，第三次击鼓士兵们的勇气就消失了。