译文：人生的处境变化无常，我们一定要谋划未来，学习安身立命的本领；人生的光阴容易逝去，我们应该尽早谋划人生，确立目标并付诸行动。赏析：生命有限，时光短暂，我们应早日树立人生目标，学得一技之长，方能立于不败之地。
2008：贝索斯致股东信《逆向工作法 VS 技能导向法》
我正在努力成长，不让事情影响我
The world is full of signs, and the writer's job is to decipher them.
学习在于改变介于刺激和反应之间的某些中介过程。
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.
写作是一种见证的方式。