The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

学习是系统中产生的任何变化，这些变化或多或少会永久性地改变其适应环境的能力。

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

The gritty individual approaches achievement as a marathon; his or her advantage is stamina.

生命太短暂，不能浪费时间恨任何人。

If you scared, go to church.

指文章的创作是流传千古的事业，而其中的得失只有作者自己心里最清楚。

最好的音乐来自内心。

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

最伟大的艺术总是处于失败的边缘。