Every stone we extract tells a story of perseverance and precision.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.

The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.

出自北齐·颜之推《颜氏家训·勉学》。不得，不能、不可。雌黄，矿物名，可作颜料，古代用以涂改文字，后引申为信口更改、随便乱说。没有读够一定数量的书，对前人的见解没有彻底了解，是不能随便乱下结论、乱发议论的。书要多读、话要谨慎；应当谦虚向学，不可妄自尊大。

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

The personal is historical, and the historical is personal.

世界上真正的悲剧不是正确与错误之间的冲突，而是两种正确之间的冲突。