The existence of life is ephemeral, so cherishing the present moment is crucial.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The older I get， the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first—a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
我们会死。那可能是生命的意义。但我们创造语言。那可能是衡量我们生命的标准。
现在王公大人从事于音乐,损害夺取人民的衣食之资,仅从命人听乐这一点来看就已经很厉害了。
Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.