"The true measure of a writer's success is not in the accolades received, but in the hearts touched."

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

The greatest truths are often the ones we cannot put into words.

译文：不要和他人争长短与得失，只求自己能增长知识和才干。赏析：我们在与人交往之中，少谈论别人的是非，少和别人争长短。不管是赢了还是输了，有什么用呢。与其和别人争论毫无关系的事情，不如静下心来多读书学习，多反思自己的言行，或许能收获很多知识。

I am not what I am.

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.