Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe， and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.

The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible.

如果你没有失败，说明你不够努力。

The novel is the only art form capable of fully representing human complexity.

I don't write songs, I write soundtracks.

诚信是所有成功关系的基础，无论是个人还是职业。

现在你们不是国人的勇士，怎么能既学好学业又学好射箭呢？ 

做官的人应为肩负天下重任而养身，而不是为私家小利惜身。省却嗜好欲念，减除烦恼忧虑，戒除愤怒，节制饮食，这就是养身。计较得失利益，规避辛劳哀怨，营造住宅房舍，以妻子儿女为重，这就是惜身。养生的人，不妄为而大方；惜身的人，腥膻而琐碎。

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

生活中最重要的事情是快乐。