"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."

2015年：贝索斯致股东信《全世界对失败最宽容的公司》

Every night I go to bed, I wake up richer.

Read what you love until you love to read.Books Over and Over Again.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them—and then, the opportunity to choose.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse.

The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy have created a situation in which the major powers are no longer willing to risk war with one another.

不要让任何人告诉你你做不到某件事。

"Every story is a story about death, but perhaps every story is also about life."

Escribo para vivir las vidas que no viví.