长期坚持后的失败，远比从未努力到足以称为失败更崇高。
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
我没有任何特别的秘诀（用于开发新的证明）……这就是为什么做研究既具有挑战性又具有吸引力的原因。这就像在丛林中迷路，试图利用你能收集到的所有知识来想出一些新的技巧，并且如果运气好的话，你可能会找到出路。
I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.
金融危机不是资本主义的失败，而是资本主义内部发展起来的一系列特定制度和实践的失败。
The director's vision is the soul of the film; without it, the film is just a series of moving images.
The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to describe the universe in the most elegant and concise way.
