"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

最大的风险是不冒任何风险。在一个变化非常快的世界里，唯一保证失败的策略就是不冒险。

译文：读书人读书，第一要有志向，第二要有见识，第三要有恒心。有了志向就不会甘心处于平庸的地位;有了见识就知道学问是没有尽头的，不敢因为有了一点收获就自我满足;有了恒心就绝对没有办不成的事情。这三种品质缺一不可。

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

我们的人生如同被讲述的故事一样度过。