我总是告诉我的孩子们，如果你躺下，人们会从你身上跨过去。但如果你继续挣扎，如果你继续前进，总会有人帮助你。

我明白失败只是过程的一部分，你不能让它定义你。

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds， as they result either from the mere situation of the climate and country or from the form of government and of the character of the people， or from those finer principles and morals， which may be called the recommendations of philosophy.

祈祷的功能不是影响上帝，而是改变祈祷者的本性。

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

要有劳苦的心志，乐观的意趣；宏大的气度，谨慎的言行。

Vulnerability is the most powerful position you can take as an artist.

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.