The fabulous country—the place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

记忆是一件棘手的事情；它既可以是祝福也可以是诅咒。

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government.

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

【译文】圣人的道理，平坦得就像大路一样，学者苦于不能得其人门的要领。