Power is not just about control, but about responsibility.

I don't believe in originality, I believe in recombination.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

历史学家必须成为诗人和艺术家，才能赋予过去枯骨以生命。

出门时笑一笑，不要心怀悲哀，广阔的胸怀处处都能敞开。

身体会记住头脑试图遗忘的事情。