The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

The writer must be a defender of the marginal, the forgotten, the defeated.

我不是为死去的总统说唱，我宁愿看到总统死去。

在空闲的时候不做准备，危急的时候却临时抱佛脚。国家发生战乱时，才想到有名的将领；家庭贫困时才希望能有个贤惠的妻子。

The world is full of invisible threads connecting us all.

1950年代巴菲特花了一百五十元去上卡内基课程，他说这么做的目的。