The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

我不是一个认为一切都有原因的人，但我确实相信，如果你努力工作并忠于自己，好事就会发生。

忿怒如火，不阻止则会烧掉一切；欲望像洪水，不阻挡则淹没一切。

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

If we find the answer to why the universe exists, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we would know the mind of God.