The only way to avoid mistakes is to have no new ideas.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

幸福是一张白纸。

The highest goal of education is not knowledge, but action.

I don’t write for the reader; I write for myself.

The future of coal lies in clean and efficient utilization.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.