Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

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.

I don’t like to be second. I like to be first.

宁要知识不要财富，因为一个是短暂的，另一个是永恒的。