重要的不是面容，而是脸上的表情。重要的不是声音，而是你说的话。重要的不是你在这个身体里看起来如何，而是你用这个身体做了什么。你很美。

Money is overrated. Truly new things rarely need an abundance of money. If that was so， billionaires would have a monopoly on inventing new things， and they don’t. Instead almost all breakthroughs are made by those who lack money， because they are forced to rely on their passion， persistence and ingenuity to figure out new ways. Being poor is an advantage in innovation.

在社会的初期，国家的首领塑造其制度；后来，制度塑造国家的首领。

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."