The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

The more I write, the more I disappear.

I write to find hope.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

我们知识的边界就是我们好奇心的前沿。