对艺术家来说最危险的不是失败，而是成功。

我把声音留给了舞台。在现实生活中我不怎么说话。

Every harvest teaches us something new; the land is the best professor if we're willing to listen.

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.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

过去是一个无处不在的阴影。

I'm stronger than I thought.

"The challenge is to make the impossible look believable."