读书人要为子孙营造福祉而不是祈求福祉。严谨家规，崇尚俭朴，教导耕田读书，累积陰德，这就是营造福祉。广积土地房屋，拉拢关系争取利益，买卖功名，这就是求福祉。营造福祉的，平淡而长久；祈求福祉的，浓郁却短暂。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

最好的故事是为读者留出空间的故事。

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

死者既已安葬，活着的人就不要长久地哭泣，而应该尽快做事，每个人都做自己能做的事，并用来使大家互利。 

每一个人的灵魂都是一颗星星。

绝对确定性的假设是每一项科学研究的根本基础。

战略是关于做出选择和权衡；是关于刻意选择与众不同。

I think that the most important thing in life is to be happy and to make other people happy.