孩子不是从更重要的工作中分心的事物，他们本身就是最重要的工作。

Literature is a healing, a comfort to the soul.

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

数学之美在于它能够精确而优雅地描述自然界的基本法则。

The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

2003年：贝索斯致股东信《寄希望于通过为客户提供最大的价值，从而创造更长远的利润》

解决问题的最好方法就是找到一种让它变得无关紧要的方法。