书是一份永远不会失去价值的宝藏。

一本好书是通往另一个世界的门。

"A child who reads will always have a friend."

Immediately pay what you owe to vendors， workers， contractors. They will go out of their way to work with you first next time.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

We are all of us, every day, engaged in the act of creating ourselves.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be.

The writer is someone who plays with the body of his mother.