我不喜欢在任何事情上失败，但我最大的成长不是来自胜利，而是挫折。

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

解释：称赞人不夸大他好的地方，那么听的人心里不痛快；诽谤人不增加他的过错，那么听的人心里不满足。

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

译文：古代的士、农、工、商四种职业不同但遵循的道是相同的，他们尽自己的心力，在这一点上是一样的。

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."