Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did.So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. （注：这句说话被部分人质疑不是由马克·吐温所说的。）

Knowledge is represented in the mind as symbolic structures.

The writer’s duty is to speak for those who cannot.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.