Nothing spoils a romance so much as sense of humour in the woman—or the want of it in the man. - 每日文摘

生命中曾经有过的所有灿烂，终究都需要用寂寞来偿还。

加西亚·马尔克斯

自由的生活仍等待着伟大的灵魂去享用。凡愈少占有的人，便愈不为物累，亦不为行役。适度的贫乏是幸福的。

尼采

理性的态度看待真实世界，你会打造出属于自己未来的成功。当你可以说服自己，你的思考是有效率的、合理的时，就是你开始行动的时机了。

吉姆·罗杰斯

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline—a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place.

官僚主义的目的是为了弥补无能和缺乏纪律——如果你一开始就有合适的人，这个问题基本上就不存在了。

吉姆·柯林斯

每一块曾经制造的塑料仍然存在于地球的某个地方——这既是我们的挑战，也是我们的责任。

Every piece of plastic ever made still exists somewhere on this planet—that's both our challenge and our responsibility.

托尼·哈德内尔

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

一个人绝对不可在遇到危险的威胁时，背过身去试图逃避。若是这样做，只会使危险加倍。但是如果立即面对它毫不退缩，危险便会减半。

丘吉尔

唱着颂歌的酒神信徒只是被同道中人理解。

尼采

如果在你明亮的世界里面我只是阴影。如果在你轻柔的嘴角眉间装满了风雨。原谅我实在没有这个勇气对你说一句。我只想和你永远在一起。

乔任梁

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

每个人都想改变世界，但没有人想到改变自己。

列夫·托尔斯泰

我们所有的知识只是帮助我们比一无所知的动物死得更痛苦。

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

莫里斯·梅特林克

As a kid， I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills， vaccinate cattle， and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon， especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club， a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers， we'd join the caravan. We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car， and off we'd go， in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip， I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips， and I hated the smell.

在我还是一个孩子的时候，我的夏天总是在德州祖父母的农场中度过。我帮忙修理风车，为牛接种疫苗，也做其它家务。每天下午，我们都会看肥皂剧，尤其是《我们的岁月》。我的祖父母参加了一个房车俱乐部，那是一群驾驶Airstream拖挂型房车的人们，他们结伴遍游美国和加拿大。每隔几个夏天，我也会加入他们。我们把房车挂在祖父的小汽车后面，然后加入300余名Airstream探险者们组成的浩荡队伍。我爱我的祖父母，我崇敬他们，也真心期盼这些旅程。那是一次我大概十岁时的旅行，我照例坐在后座的长椅上，祖父开着车，祖母坐在他旁边，吸着烟。我讨厌烟味。