写作是驱除恶魔的方式，同时也是自我发现的过程。

千里之行，始于足下。

世界上最好和最美的东西是看不见甚至摸不着的——它们必须用心去感受。

You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.

宰相必须从地方官员中选拔，猛将必须从士兵中产生

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts.

物理学和数学之间的界限并不像人们想象的那么清晰。

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.