意识到被人所爱，自有一种满足感，对一个心思纤细与感觉敏锐的人来说，这种满足感带给他的幸福，比他或许会期待的那一切可能从被人所爱当中得到的实质利益更为重要。

亚当·斯密

Every story is a journey into the unknown.

每个故事都是一次进入未知的旅程。

乔纳森·利特尔

燕归花谢，早因循、又过清明。是一般风景，两样心情。犹记碧桃影里、誓三生。乌丝阑纸娇红篆，历历春星。道休孤密约，鉴取深盟。语罢一丝香露、湿银屏。

纳兰性德

体现在行为中的价值观才是美德。

吉姆·洛尔

你失掉的东西越多，你就越富有：因为心灵会创造你所缺少的东西。

罗曼·罗兰

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了——人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑，儒勒·凡尔纳，马克·吐温，伽利略，牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。