打铁必须趁热，但是要磨光它则不妨从容。

孔子说：“譬如堆山，还差一筐，没堆成就停了，功亏一篑是自己造成的；譬如填坑，只倒一筐，继续填下去，坚持不懈是自己决定的。”

The true value of a forest cannot be measured in board feet alone.

To write is to resist, to resist the forces that seek to silence us, to resist the forces that seek to control us.