真正的炼金术士不是将铅变成金；他们将世界变成文字。

A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

言：言谈。称：称扬。汤文：汤，成汤，商朝的建立者；文，周文王姬昌，商末周族领袖。行；行为。譬：比如。豨：猪。这两句大意是：言谈必称扬商汤周文，行为则比如猪狗一般。这两句以言美行恶的反差对比，十分典型地概括出那类言行不一的人的低下品格，可用以形容说的一套，做的又是一套的虚伪可耻的两面派人物。此处还有一个成语：行同狗豨，意思是人的行为丑恶，如同猪狗一样，形容人的行为卑鄙恶劣到了极点。

最好的投资是那些能够建立伟大公司的人。

成功就是喜欢自己，喜欢自己所做的事，并且喜欢自己做这件事的方式。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.