The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

1998年：贝索斯致股东信《保持对客户的恐惧》

To truly grasp the nature of reality, one must first accept the limitations of human perception.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.