我喜欢旧书，旧书和新书的意义不同，新书让你进入未知的世界，旧书却常常叫你自愧于知之有限。你会恍然大悟，原来今天奉为神明的那些话，很早很早以前就有人说过。

冯骥才

应当相信，自我是生活的强者。

雨果

人有四不说：不说自己目标，不说自己钱财，不说自己家事，不说自己错事。守住这四个秘密，免灾祸，远是非。

莫言

"Every story is a fragment of the universe trying to explain itself."

每个故事都是宇宙试图解释自己的一个片段。

亚历山大·克鲁格

有许多可爱的女性，但没有完美无缺的女性。

雨果

责人之心责己，爱己之心爱人。

周希陶

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了——人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑，儒勒·凡尔纳，马克·吐温，伽利略，牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。