I'm a person who likes to be first.

虚荣和傲慢是不同的东西，尽管这两个词经常被用作同义词。

Mindfulness meditation can strengthen attentional control by training the brain to focus and resist distraction.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

在寻找真理的过程中，没有最终的答案，只有更好的问题。

教育的功能是教会人们深入思考和批判性思考。智慧加上品格——这才是真正教育的目标。

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

The work of art is a trace of the eternal.

不再年轻的乐趣在于你可以享受事物而不必占有它们。