大自然赋予我形体使我负载，赋予我生命使我劳碌，使我变老以得到安闲，使我死亡以得到安息。所以能把活着当作好事，也就能把死去当作好事了。

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.

Music is a belief that makes me never give up.

The Langlands program is a reflection of the interconnectedness of all mathematical disciplines.

记忆既是我们的监狱，也是我们通往自由的唯一道路。

成绩差距主要是知识差距。

人的状况...是一种每个人对每个人的战争状况。

一个最重大的错误，是以动机而不是结果来判断政策的得失。