I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

唯一能把我拉下来的人就是我自己，我不会再让自己把自己拉下来了。

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

Peace is the highest good， because it is the state in which the mind is most fully in accord with its nature.

在远处防守不如在近处防守，把守太繁琐不如把守要塞，用常法把守不如用出奇制胜的方法，把守宽阔的地方不如把守狭窄的地方，在深处把守不如在浅处把守。

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."