There is an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

适应能力是当今快速变化的世界中最重要的技能。

有功于天地称为功，有关于世间名教称为名，有学问为富，有廉耻为贵，此即所谓功名富贵。无所求称为道，无欲念称为德，没有世俗的恶习称为文，处事有原则称为章，此即所谓的道德文章。

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The folly of humankind lies in complicating the simple.

触觉是我们的第一语言，是我们与世界互动的原始方式。