译文：把读书看成功业，用一生的时间去做，自然就会得到读书带来的乐趣；心存善念，多做善事，不必去争那些乐善好施的虚名。赏析：读书和做善事一样，不必在乎那些功利的想法。读书应该用心，读书的乐趣不是用金钱的多少来衡量的。做好事，只要问心无愧，不必非得让别人知道。

The most dangerous thing is not the lies we tell others, but the lies we tell ourselves.

The human mind is designed to seek out and find evidence that confirms what it already believes.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

The best literature is that which makes us uncomfortable, which disturbs our sleep.