It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

我不仅为自己写作，也为那些无法发声的人写作。

Good habits shape an excellent life.

The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.