The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - 每日文摘

You can't change your elephant by direct force, but you can train it over time.

你不能通过直接的力量改变你的大象，但你可以随着时间的推移训练它。

乔纳森·海特

Silence is very important. The silence is just as important as the notes.

沉默非常重要。沉默和音符同等重要。

恩雅

过去不是为了生活其中；它是一个结论的源泉，我们从中汲取以行动。

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

约翰·伯格

“没什么如果当初。”陈寻望着喧嚣热闹的大街说，“不管重来多少次，人生都肯定会有遗憾。”

九夜茴

If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.

如果你没有时间，你就没有优先事项。

蒂姆·费里斯

具备“两种力量”：一种是思想的力量，一种是工具的力量。

王蒙

细节决定成败，在工程建设中尤其如此。

丁焰章

所有必然的东西，尼采说，都不会使我生气，爱命运是我本性的核心。

尼采

I don't mind being wrong, I just don't want to stay wrong.

我不介意犯错，我只是不想一直错下去。

史蒂夫·科恩

未有马屁而不狗屁者，亦未有狗屁而不马屁者。两屁互相内含，怪哉！

李敖

Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life. Or are there perhaps colleges for forty-year-olds which prepare them for their coming life and its demands as the ordinary colleges introduce our young people to a knowledge of the world? No, thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

我们完全手足无措地踏上生命的后半征程。普通大学把年轻人引入知识世界，什么学校能让四十几岁人为未来生活做好准备？没有这种学校，我们完全无备地踏入后半生；而更糟的是，我们假定现实和理想会一如既往地效忠于我们。但实际上，我们不能依照生命之晨，来度过生命之午后，因为晨时的伟大会成为傍晚时的琐碎，而晨时的真理会在傍晚变为谎言。