The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

——《大总统复参议会论国旗函》，1912年2月3日

Quality is never an accident; it's always the result of intelligent effort.

The creation of a modern state is a complex and difficult process that requires the development of strong institutions.

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

I feel like killing everybody every time I go to the arena.

写作是一种更强烈地体验生活、赋予生活更多意义的方式。