"Every border is a fiction, drawn first in the mind before it scars the earth."
每一条边界都是虚构的，先在脑海中划定，然后才在大地上留下伤痕。
我不认为自己是一个碰巧是黑人的作家。我认为自己是一个黑人作家。
一个人绝对不可在遇到危险的威胁时，背过身去试图逃避。若是这样做，只会使危险加倍。但是如果立即面对它毫不退缩，危险便会减半。
A penny earned is a penny saved.
成功不在于技术本身，而在于它所带来的体验和改善的生活。
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself.
Psychological understanding comes from seeing mind in action.