获得智慧是一种道德责任，它不仅仅是为了让你们的生活变得更加美好。有一个相关的道理非常重要，那就是你们必须坚持终身学习。如果不终身学习，你们将不会取得很高的成就。光靠已有的知识，你们在生活中走不了多远。
Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. And there’s a corollary to that proposition which is very important. It means that you’re hooked for lifetime learning, and without lifetime learning you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.
The joy of solving a mathematical problem is unparalleled; it is a moment of pure intellectual triumph.
中国的崛起是21世纪最重要的地缘政治事件。
在自然状态下，所有人确实生而平等，但他们不能保持这种平等。社会使他们失去了这种平等，他们只有通过法律的保护才能重新获得它。
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."