I don’t let the past define me, I let it refine me.

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most politically dangerous part of human nature.

要摧毁一种文化，你不必烧书。只要让人们停止阅读它们。

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

云不是一个地方，而是一种做生意的方式。