最深刻的理论往往源于最简单的观察。
The most profound theories often arise from the simplest observations.
In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.
理性是冰冷的太阳，它给予光明却不给予温暖。
真正的英雄是那些即使害怕也坚持战斗的人。
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
如果你做不到，那就去教别人。
The Langlands program is a reflection of the beauty and depth of mathematical thought.
译文：感叹白发，观察世间的道路。人们无不追求荣华，看重富贵而轻视贫贱。显赫的宫门，华丽的宫殿。年轻时入仕，幼年时就献上谋略。