人必须在具体事情上磨炼功夫，才能有所收获。如果只是喜欢安静，遇到事情就会慌乱，终究不会有进步。

The quality of institutions is the key determinant of a country's success or failure.

我通过对真理的热爱，从确定性的安全舒适中挣脱出来；而真理也回报了我。

最好的管理是一门真正的科学，建立在明确的法律、规则和原则之上。

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

"Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order."