The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of the human personality because it is what drives people to want to be recognized as superior to others.

The mind is the organ of adjustment par excellence.

我知道自我推销很常见，这并不坏。但我不认为这是积极的。

我们不讲述的故事往往是最重要的。

游览山水就像读书一样，收获的深浅在于个人的领悟

Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see.

——1945年4月接到希特勒已死的消息时说

I became insane， with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.