为善如负重登山，志虽已确，而力犹恐不及；为恶如乘骏走坡，鞭虽不加，而足不禁其前。
做好事如同背负重物而登山，志向虽已确立，但总是担心力不从心；干坏事如同骑马下山，虽然未加鞭，但却欲驻足而难以自禁。
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
The best fertilizer for any farm is the footsteps of its owner.
A novelist's job is to lie, but to reveal the truth through lies.
If you don't fail, you're not innovating enough.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.