What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did； they will only remember how you made them feel.

在我们所知的宇宙中，存在巨大的不公正，善良的人经常受苦，邪恶的人经常繁荣，人们很难知道哪一个更令人恼火。

你停止学习的那一刻，就是你开始失败的那一刻。

Collaboration across borders is key to solving global food challenges.

"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."

世界是一个充满阴影的地方，而我们则是穿行其中的幽灵。

——在上海中国国民党本部会议演说，1920年11月9日

Beauty is not the goal of art, but its byproduct.

成功很好，但那不是我创作音乐的原因。

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.

The novel is the art of the possible, and the possible is always more terrifying than the real.

万物皆有裂痕，那是光照进来的地方。

读者的诞生必须以作者的死亡为代价。