"History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier."

一分钟的成功可以弥补多年的失败。

最可持续的树是仍然屹立不倒的树。

译文：喝酒时不乱说胡话的人是品质高洁的君子，金钱财物上分得清的人是真正的大丈夫。赏析：小酌有益于身心健康，但过量饮酒就会失态。不管是朋友，还是亲戚，在金钱方面一定要账目分明，否则就会因为利益产生矛盾。

最危险的毒药是成就感，解药是每晚思考明天如何做得更好。

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Investing in clean coal technologies isn't an expense—it's an investment in our future.