我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.
The most important thing for an actor is to be honest. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
I believe that all writing is a form of resistance.
现在数学家面临的最大问题可能是黎曼假设。
Every life leaves behind a trail of evidence; the biographer is the detective who follows it.
小人办事，处理的原则是私利，合于私利的就看作利，违背私利的就看作害；君子办事，衡量的标准是道义，合于道义的就看作利，违反道义的就看作害。