It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
试图始终不做愚蠢的事，而不是试图变得非常聪明，像我们这样的人从中获得了多么巨大的长期优势，这是非常值得注意的。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
最伟大的故事是那些超越时间的故事。
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves； to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections， constitute the perfection of human nature.