我们必须投资于不仅能提高效率而且能减少环境影响的技术。

Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic. In other words -- what is a meritocratic society? A meritocratic society is one in which, if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back. It's a beautiful idea.

我不想成为一棵树本身，而想成为它的意义。《我的名字叫红》

I’m not frightened of falling in love. I’m frightened of not falling in love.

To write is to bear witness.

I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

所有的幸福都依赖于勇气和工作。

一个民族的文化是一组文本的集合，而这些文本本身也是集合，人类学家努力从这些文本的真正拥有者的肩膀上方去阅读它们。

人独自行过生命，蒙受玷污，承担罪过，痛饮苦酒，寻觅出路。