Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

研究明史需要全面理解其独特的社会结构和文化背景。

我曾把许多东西握在手中，但都失去了；但无论我把什么放在上帝的手中，我仍然拥有它。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

写作是一种抵抗，是在日益冰冷的世界中保持人性火焰不灭的方式。