促进民主的最有效方式不是通过军事干预，而是通过建立制度和促进经济发展的缓慢而稳定的过程。

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

成为哲学家不仅仅是有微妙的思想，甚至也不是建立一个学派，而是如此热爱智慧以至于按照它的指示生活。

真正的领导力是激励他人实现他们认为不可能的事情。