海洋是一台巨大的机器，而风是它的发条。
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. Men’s happiness or misery is most part of their own making. He, whose mind directs not wisely, will never take the right way; and he, whose body is crazy and feeble, will never be able to advance in it.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
The work is a kind of mapping.
The only true voyage of discovery would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
有怒气要尽力消化，有过错要仔细检讨。
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love—and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.