【译文】 孔子说：“品质恶劣的人，忍受不了贫穷，享受不了快乐。仁者安仁，智者利仁。”

I’m not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to fall. That’s life. You fall, you get back up.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The best way to predict the future is to create it through innovation.