最好的还在后头，生命的最后，是为了最初而存在的。

Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you're going to do next!

广东话谚语

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"