"The best way to learn is to do it, to make mistakes, and to learn from them."

经济学的奇妙任务是向人们展示，他们对自己想象中能够设计的东西知之甚少。

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done this way.'

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is in his heart.

It is not a very fragrant world, but it is the world you live in.