要热爱书，它会使你的生活轻松；它会友爱地来帮助你了解纷繁复杂的思想情感和事件；它会教导你尊重别人和你自己；它以热爱世界热爱人类的情感来鼓舞智慧和心灵。

The real challenge is not to build a cheap house, but to build a house that is cheap to live in.

I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

乔治·奥威尔

我们都是自己故事的总和，而传记帮助我们理解这个等式。

"We are all the sum of our stories, and biography helps us understand the equation."

格雷厄姆·法默尔

不要花时间在一个不愿花时间在你身上的人。

泰戈尔

能够不随波逐流的人，在哪儿都是异类。

赫尔曼·黑塞

孩子享有父亲的财富，仅仅因为父亲将权力转移给他们，然而孩子作为人的自由是有自然赋予的，他们的父母完全没有权利剥夺这种自由。

卢梭

Courtesy costs nothing. Lower the toilet seat after use. Let the people in the elevator exit before you enter. Return shopping carts to their designated areas. When you borrow something， return it better shape (filled up， cleaned) than when you got it.

礼貌，并不需要花钱。用完马桶后，把马桶盖放下；上电梯时，耐心等别人出来再进去；把购物车放回指定区域；在借东西时，归还时要东西的状态要比你借的时候还要好（例如给车加满油、把物品清理干净）。

凯文·凯利

宇宙间的一切，都在不断地变化和发展之中。

恩培多克勒

所谓真正的智慧，都是曾经被人思考过千百次；但要想使它们真正成为我们自己的，一定要经过我闪自己再三思维，直至它们在我个人经验中生根为止。

歌德

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum.

实现目标最重要的事情是确保一旦你设定了目标，你立即开始创造动力。

托尼·罗宾斯

要在准备好时做出决定，而不是在压力之下。或为了达到个人目的，或因为内部斗争，或因为一些外部需求，其他人总会催促你做出决策。但几乎每次你都可以这么说：“我需要更多的时间来考虑这个问题。我想清楚了再回复你。”即使是在最艰难、最令人不快的情况下，这种策略也非常有效。

Make decisions when you are ready, not under pressure. Others will always push you to make a decision for their own purposes, internal politics, or some other external need. But you can almost always say, “I need a little more time to think about this. I’ll get back to you.” This tactic is very effective at defusing even the most difficult and uncomfortable situations.