The beauty of mathematics is that it is a language that can describe the universe in a way that nothing else can.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

重要的不是你被击倒多少次，而是你能重新站起来多少次。

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

"The world is full of stories, but the best ones are the ones we live."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.