诚信是信任的基础，而信任是商业的基础。
Integrity is the foundation of trust, and trust is the foundation of business.
I must study politics and war, tapestry and porcelain.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.
"Don't confuse motion with progress."
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas.
Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.
The world is full of broken people.