Never be the brightest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.

Never be satisfied with current achievements, always aim higher.

樊迟问仁，孔子说：“对人慈爱。”问智，孔子说：“对人了解。”樊迟不理解。孔子说：“以正压邪，能使邪者正。”

唯一能给你带来幸福的是你自己。

I don't run from my past, I just don't bring it with me.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.