I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
我不知道这个世界会如何看我，但对我自己而言我仅仅是一个在海边嬉戏的顽童，为时不时发现一粒光滑的石子或一片可爱的贝壳而欢喜，可与此同时对我面前的伟大的真理的海洋熟视无睹。
写作是与他人联系的一种方式。
每件促使我们注意到他人的事，都能使我们更好地理解自己。
在石油和天然气行业，唯一不变的是变化——适应者繁荣，抗拒者消亡。
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
We are all products of an unbroken lineage.