No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

衡量进步的真正标准不仅仅是利润，还有我们给社会和地球留下的积极影响。

The study of automorphic representations is a journey into the heart of symmetry.

——从浙江观潮返上海后题词，1916年9月15日

数学是提出正确问题然后找到答案的艺术。

Once in a while the phenomena we exploit are particularly present. We like a reasonable amount of volatility. In our business we want some action. “Tumult is usually good for us. We don’t have credit lines of any significance. We don’t do a lot of leveraged-type financing.

Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.

"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."