给你敬佩的人写信或打电话，请他们提供建议或与其会面的机会。你永远不知道谁愿意跟你见面。最后你会从这些人身上学到很多重要的东西，建立你在余生都可以享用的人际关系。在生命早期结交的人，会与你缔结非同寻常的感情纽带。

我打球曾经打到手断、脚踝扭伤、肩膀脱臼、牙齿碎掉、嘴唇裂开、膝盖肿成一个垒球大小。我不想因为脚趾受伤错过15场比赛，因为大家都知道脚趾受伤并不严重。

I cannot but be astonished that Socrates， after having so often repeated to his fellow citizens that he did not pretend to any wisdom， but had been appointed by the gods to a mission of benevolence towards them， should have been condemned to death.

如果你不顽强，你就会过早放弃试验。如果你不灵活，你就会以头撞墙，而不会找到解决问题的不同办法。

一个阅读的孩子永远不会感到无聊。

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.