人生苦短，不能不追随梦想。

倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。

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！"

The more powerful and lively that our idea of God is， the more it will affect our life and character.

做事情不需要花费许多的体力，但做决定需要付出很大的精力。

有时最危险的人恰恰是那些看起来最普通的人。