The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.

真正的领导力是为他人服务，而不是命令他们。

你无法控制一切。有时候你只需要放松并相信事情会好起来。放手一点，让生活发生。

Natural laws govern everything.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

The present is the point at which time touches eternity.

我相信，整个世界被这种新奇而神奇的媒介（电报）启蒙的时代已不遥远。

小说不仅仅是一个故事，而是一面反映人性复杂性的镜子。