I don’t chase success, I chase excellence.

Leadership is about making tough decisions today that will benefit future generations.

"El arte es la única manera de escapar sin salir de casa."

基础设施决定论原则认为，生产和再生产的客观行为模式概率性地决定了家庭和政治经济的客观行为，进而概率性地决定了行为和思想的上层建筑。

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

The world is full of small pleasures; the trick is to find them.