"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

挑战是伪装的机遇，拥抱它们并变得更强大。

朗兰兹纲领是数学思想之美和深度的反映。

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

在商业中，如果你不前进，你就在落后——可持续性现在是进步的方向。

音乐是灵魂的语言，它能以言语无法企及的方式触动人心。