If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
如果我看得更远,那是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.
"Every word we write is a step towards understanding ourselves and the world around us."
Continuous improvement is not optional—it's essential.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.