外交的任务是延长决策的时间。

这些人很少不是死于自己的所长,所以说∶事业达到顶峰就难以持久。

预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。

当我创作音乐时，我仿佛置身于另一个世界。

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

The night is a great silence, but the stars are its music.

关于神，我不知道他们是否存在，也不知道他们的形态是什么样子的；因为有许多事情阻碍了确切的知识，包括事物的晦涩和人类生命的短暂。

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.