The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

尘世存在的意义，并不像我们习惯于认为的那样，在于繁荣昌盛，而在于灵魂的滋长。

I think it's important to have a good hard failure when you're young... I learned a lot from that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it, I've never had any fear in my whole life when we've been near collapse and so on. I've never been afraid.

生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。

孔子说：“我想不说话。”子贡说：“您如果不说话，谁教我们呢？”孔子说：“天说过什么？天不说话，照样四季运行，百物生长，天说过什么？”

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·刺复》。做大事的人要有耐心，没耐心就会乱了方寸，误了大事；做小事的人不能有怠慢轻忽之心，否则事情就做不成。前句之意是说，做大事（如治国安邦）要有足够的耐心，不能有浮躁之气，不然思虑不周，定会坏了大事。

世人所知道的我，并不是实在的我。