Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
Powerlessness corrupts. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
在商业中，如果你停滞不前，实际上你正在倒退。
Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
解释：做大事的不做小事，要成就大事的不成就小事。
伦理不是进步的障碍，而是负责任进步的指南。