The dead are our silent collaborators in the quest for knowledge.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

他认为，人不抱希望是很傻的。

那些将环境挑战视为商业机会的公司将会成功。

In the silence of reading, we find the loudest truths.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.