没有一定的目标，智慧就会丧失；哪儿都是目标，哪儿就都没有目标。 - 每日文摘

推动各民族演化的主要因素，永远不是真理，而是谬误，如今社会主义为何如此强大，原因就在于它是仍然具有活力的最后幻想者。

When I was 29, I told myself the next acting job I get, no matter what it pays, I will from now on for better or worse, be a working actor.

彼特·丁拉基

男人在精神上越成熟，就越赏识女人的美，崇拜她的美。

车尔尼雪夫斯基

当我们漫步在乡间小路时，如果我们真正地投入正念中，那么我们就会把自己所迈出的每一步都视为一个无尽的奇迹。此时，一股喜悦就会涌上心头，如同一朵花绽放在我们的心间，使我们能够进入实相的世界。

一行禅师

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。