我练体操是因为我喜欢它，而不是因为我想成为世界上最好的。
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
如果你不能，你必须。如果你必须，你就能。
科学不仅仅是事实的集合；它是一种思维方式。
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome given the alternatives.