悲伤就是知识
To live is to leave traces, and poetry is the most enduring of them all.
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
我当时在纽约一家金融公司工作,同事是一群非常聪明的人,我的老板也很有智慧,我很羡慕他。我告诉我的老板我想开办一家在网上卖书的公司。他带我在中央公园漫步良久,认真地听我讲完,最后说:"听起来真是一个很好的主意,但是对那些目前没有谋到一份好工作的人来说,这个主意会更好。"这一逻辑对我而言颇有道理,他说服我在最终作出决定之前再考虑48小时。那样想来,这个决定确实很艰难,但是最终,我决定拼一次。我认为自己不会为尝试过后的失败而遗憾,倒是有所决定但完全不付诸行动会一直煎熬着我。在深思熟虑之后,我选择了那条不安全的道路,去追随我内心的热情。我为那个决定感到骄傲。
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
人们并不愚蠢,只是世界很复杂。
文字周围的沉默与文字本身同样重要。
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.