外交并不是被动地适应变化，而是积极主动地塑造变化。

我是一个喜欢卓越的人。

成功没有绝对的意义，成功就是做最好的自己，并把最好的你呈现出来。

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

You don't have to like it, but you have to accept that it's art.

Believe in yourself even when no one else does, because that's when it matters most.

I think the most important thing in life is to be honest with yourself.

Art is humanity's last line of defense.