我认为过去的成绩非常重要。如果你从早就开始努力在一些简单的事情上，比如诚实，拥有一个完美的记录，你就已经在这个世界上走上了成功的道路。

The secret of good baking is to keep it simple.

教育是在所学知识被遗忘后仍能留存的东西。

The only way to escape the mundane is to meticulously observe it.

Mathematics is a universal language that transcends cultural and linguistic barriers.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

制度的重要性有时比我们承认的要大。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.