蓬草长在麻地里，不用扶它也能挺立；把白沙放在黑土里，白沙也就变成黑的了。这两个例子说明，环境对一个人的影响，是非常大的，所以才有了《孟母三迁》的故事。

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in classroom, which is natural.My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.

在三十岁时我们想要朋友。在四十岁时我们知道朋友不会比爱情更能拯救我们。