我们生来都带着某种包袱。我们就是我们：我们出生的地方，我们出生的身份，我们被养育的方式。我们有点被困在那个身份里，而文明和成长的目的是能够伸出手去，对其他人的处境感同身受。
We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.
化学是我们日常生活的无声建筑师。
"The writer is a man who is always trying to capture the essence of life, the essence of the human condition, the essence of the world."
"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."
成功不在于成为最大的，而在于产生最大的积极影响。
I don't work with ideas, I work with materials.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
The consistency of your endeavors (exercise， companionship， work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day， which is way more important than what you do occasionally.