The hardest decisions often require balancing short-term gains with long-term consequences.
最艰难的决定往往需要在短期收益和长期影响之间取得平衡。
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
善恶之间的界限是可渗透的，任何人都可以跨越。
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
全球政治的未来将由民主和威权制度之间的竞争所塑造。