The success of a society depends on its ability to balance the demands of individual freedom with the need for social cohesion.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The best solutions often come from listening to diverse perspectives and finding common ground.
There is a violence in being known, and a violence in remaining unknown.
音乐是我的语言,我用它和世界对话。
绝对的信仰像绝对的权力一样导致绝对的腐败。
The challenge is to make the audience believe in the character, not in the actor.