The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

I don’t like to do easy things. I like to do things that are challenging and that push me.

出自《海国图志》。圣人把天下当作一家，四海的人都是兄弟，所以对远方的人采取怀柔政策，以宾客的礼仪对待外国，这是王者的大度;普遍了解边塞民族的风俗，广泛博览全球风貌，这是智慧之人的远见卓识。

Life is a horse，and either you ride it or it rides you.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.