谨慎坚定善良的本性，则心灵安定；收敛抑制浮燥之气，则心气平和。

你不必伟大才能开始，但你必须开始才能伟大。

2015年：贝索斯致股东信《全世界对失败最宽容的公司》

You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The silence between brushstrokes holds more truth than the painting itself.

沉默是如此精确。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.