挑书这件事，一定要自己做，不要找别人推荐，因为那会让自己的“挑书能力”永远差，而且越来越差。
“用进废退”无论在哪里都适用的道理
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
诗歌不仅是一种艺术，它是一种生活方式。
The only way to tolerate existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
基于证据的政策制定会带来更好的结果。
成功的真正标准是你能从失败中重新站起来的次数。