读书求明理,须让自己满意;与别人谈道理,须令别人佩服。
"La política y la literatura son dos formas de interpretar la realidad, pero la literatura siempre va más allá."
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  
Our descendants will achieve things that will amaze us, yet a portion of what they will create could have been made with today’s materials and tools if we had had the imagination. Think bigger.