"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

我希望在即将到来的这一年里，你会犯错误。因为如果你在犯错误，那么你就在创造新事物，尝试新事物，学习，生活，推动自己，改变自己，改变你的世界。你在做你以前从未做过的事情，更重要的是，你在做一些事情。

尼尔·盖曼

在爱的庄园里，如果不幸降临你就把它当成幸事。

鲁米

Children’s books should be full of warmth, not just lessons.

儿童书籍应该充满温暖，而不仅仅是说教。

海伦·奥克森伯里

人生就像打橄榄球一样，不能犯规，也不要闪避球，而应向底线冲过去。

罗斯福

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"

杰夫·贝索斯

同样的事日日反复，只需遵循与昨日相同的惯例。倘若避免大喜大悲，彻骨的悲伤便不会到来。前方路遇挡路之石，蟾蜍都会绕路而行。

太宰治

风后面是风，天空上面是天空，道路前面还是道路。

北岛

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.

语言是一种自由创造的过程；其法则和原则是固定的，但生成原则的使用方式是自由且无限多样的。

诺姆·乔姆斯基

我这心头一念才从竹竿巷，忽到竹竿尖；

胡适

"你越是试图找到真相，就越失去它。"

"The more you try to find the truth, the more you lose it."