成功是唯一的选择，失败不是。

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

文学研究归根结底是对人性的研究

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...

时间是你最宝贵的资产，不要浪费在无关紧要的事情上。