Life is too short to not do what you love.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

The essence of science lies in its relentless pursuit of truth through observation, experimentation, and reasoning.

我们阅读是为了知道自己并不孤单。

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.