没有信仰的人的生活，无非是动物的生活。

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

托马斯·沃尔夫

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

梦魇是相信恐吓人们是刺激他们发奋的最好办法，或是环境越残酷，就会有越多人接受挑战。你必须想，你的理想父亲是怎样的？你的理想父亲往往是严厉又温和的，虽然这界限很难画定，我们社会需要的模范性人物是像一个理想父亲，不要走极端，不要完全集权、纯粹纪律，也不要模糊马虎，乱无规章。

阿兰·德波顿

地利不如人和，武力不如文德。

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·险固》。这句话以“地利”与“人和”、“武力”与“文德”的对比，阐明了实行仁政对于治国安邦的重要性。

桓宽

厉害的人，不是嗓门最高说话最多，厉害的人说用最少的话，说进别人最深的心里。

崔璀

宁可正而不足，不可邪而有余。

周希陶

反脆弱性偏好随机性和不确定性，这意味着——这一点非常关键——它也偏好错误，准确地说是某一类错误。反脆弱性有一个奇特的属性，它能帮助我们应对未知的事情，解决我们不了解的问题，而且非常有效。让我说得更直白些：由于有了反脆弱性，我们做的要比我们想象的更好。我宁愿做愚钝但反脆弱性的人，也不做极其聪明但脆弱的人。