You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
自由民主制度可能并不完美，但它是我们拥有的最好的制度。
The future of energy lies in diversification—no single source will meet all our needs.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.