Your voice is your power. Don't let anyone silence you.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

"I am fascinated by the fragility of human relationships and the power dynamics within them."

最让我兴奋的是基础科学改变医学的潜力。

"The human mind is a labyrinth, and every story is a thread leading us deeper into its mysteries."

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count.

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.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.