姚明的英语越来越好，一位记者不识时务的问道：“你（姚明）现在是不是觉得英文比中文说的更加流利？”姚明马上对着身边的翻译科林说道

Ask anyone you admire: Their lucky breaks happened on a detour from their main goal. So embrace detours. Life is not a straight line for anyone.

The improvement of the productive powers of labor, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is anywhere directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of division of labor.

Every discovery in science opens up a new set of questions, and that's what makes it so exciting.

The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption.