切记，对快乐感同身受虽然会增加世上的快乐，但对痛苦感同身受却无法消除痛苦。虽然如此让人更能忍受罪行，但罪恶不会因此消失。.

The strength of liberal democracy lies in its ability to adapt and reform itself.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

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.