"I don't want to be a hero. I just want to be a person who does the right thing."

A mathematician's work is mostly a solitary pursuit, but it builds on the work of many others.

译文：不能让智巧劳烦打扰我们的心境，不能让私利拖累我们的自身；把国家的治乱寄托在法术上，把是非的判断寄托在赏罚上。

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

韧性不仅仅是度过危机，而是适应并蓬勃发展。

出自《海国图志序》。善于学习外国的长处，就能够征服外国;不善于学习外国的长处就会被外国所征服。

Abandon unnecessary desires, and you will find true freedom.