A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

煤炭的未来不在于过去，而在于创新和可持续性。

译文：贪图蝇头小利之人是不能立下大功绩的，心存私欲的人是不能去为众人办实事的。赏析：蝇头小利会让人迷失心智，会让人丧失斗志，从而远离人生的大目标。心存私欲，自然就缺乏公平公正，有私心，说话做事自然就会心虚，内心不坚定，何以办大事。

We have to own our mistakes and learn from them.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

夢は、追いかけるものではなく、追いかけてくるものだ。