阅读只为心灵提供知识的材料；是思考使我们所读的东西成为我们自己的。
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
无论你变得多好，你总能变得更好，这就是最令人兴奋的部分。
I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.
我不在乎过去，我在乎未来。
大海不会奖赏那些太焦虑、太贪婪或太不耐烦的人。
译文：没有志向，天下没有能做成的事。强调立志是成事的起点。
可持续能源解决方案将定义21世纪。