I've learned that you can't control everything, and sometimes you just have to let go.

It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

译文：用心算计别人时，自己就会出错，退一步考虑事情，任何事就会变得宽广。赏析：处处算计别人，时刻都想占便宜，总有一天自己会被别人算计。心胸开阔，放低姿态，忍一时风平浪静，退一步海阔天空。

——《在上海南京路同盟会机关的演说》（1912年4月16日）

The stories I’m writing now are more and more about memory, about the past, and about how we reconstruct the past.

化学工业是现代文明的支柱，我们必须以应有的责任感对待它。