探求事理方法要缓缓，仔细品尝涵泳才能有所心得；欲念决断方法要果断，奋力果决才能自新。

痛苦的秘诀在于有闲暇去纠结自己是否幸福。

People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

智能是根据过去经验预测未来的能力。

不满是个人或民族迈向进步的第一步。

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

文化生态学通过关注人类与其环境之间的互动，弥合了自然科学与社会科学之间的鸿沟。