The ladder of causation has three rungs: seeing, doing, and imagining.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

能源转型不仅仅是更换燃料；它关乎整个经济和社会的转型。

I think that one should recognize the reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.