The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

作家必须是一个永远的初学者，总是怀疑，总是探索。

要明智地管理森林，必须首先学会像森林一样思考。

Les grandes douleurs sont muettes.

我能做的就是做我自己，不管那是谁

When I sing, I feel like I'm in a different world where nothing else matters.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

That “democracy” is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: “I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions,” or something of this sort.