The most successful societies in the future will be those that are able to combine the strengths of both the state and the market.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

活着就是受苦，生存就是在苦难中找到某种意义。

"We live our lives as a tale that is told."

Local communities hold ancestral wisdom about marine life—we must listen before we innovate.

人的欲望和其他激情，本质上是受到他自己控制的；他真正的困难在于，要知道何时需要加以控制，何时不需要。

天赋很重要，但没有努力，它就毫无意义。