我性嗜奠基，不嗜产业。我的产业就是荣耀和盛名。 - 每日文摘

最大的风险是不冒任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

约翰·西凯利

人为感情烦恼永远是不值得原谅的，感情是奢侈品，有些人一辈子也没有恋爱过。恋爱与瓶花一样，不能保持永久生命。

亦舒

我们的感情变得灰暗麻木，因为我们处在同样不近人情的邪恶与道德之间而感到茫然失措。

伊塔洛·卡尔维诺

最重要的就是不要去看远方模糊的，而是要做手边清楚的事。

卡耐基

我把活的生命给了我的家庭，我把剩下的遗体给罗伯特·金凯德。

罗伯特·詹姆斯·沃勒

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"