The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

下一场农业革命将是隐形的——它发生在实验室里、数据云端，最重要的是发生在我们思维方式中。

衡量你成长程度的最好方法不是用你现在能在跑道上跑多少圈，甚至不是用你的平均成绩来衡量——当然，这些都很重要。重要的是你用你的时间做了什么，你选择了怎样度过你的每一天，以及你今年接触了谁。对我来说，这是衡量成功的最大标准。