The most important relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

O poder das palavras está na sua capacidade de criar mundos inteiros.

【译文】 孔子说：“富和贵，人人向往，不以正当的方法得到的，不要享受；贫和贱，人人厌恶，不以正当方法摆脱的，不要逃避。君子扔掉了仁爱之心，怎么算君子？君子时刻不会违反仁道，紧急时如此，颠沛时如此。”