I don't want to be a champion. I want to be a challenger.

Auction design is as much about psychology as it is about mathematics.

上帝喜爱人间的灯光甚於他自己的大星。

The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don't look very much.

坚持做自己，因为没有人能代替你。

力量并非来自身体的能力，而是来自不屈的意志。

For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.

To be an artist is to be forever curious, forever searching for new ways to see the world.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.