我被人类崇高的思想所感动－在人类的本能之中，他们对知识的受远超过了无意义的玩乐。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

To do mathematics is to explore a universe of ideas, where the only limit is your imagination.

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."

A story is a gift—one that keeps giving.