The greatest risk is standing still while the world changes around us.

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话，他说“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。用现在的口吻说，看一个人的名片来决定你是否要和他交谈是罪。对圣奥古斯丁来说，人的价值不在他的社会地位，只有神可以决定一个人的价值，他将在天使围绕、小号奏鸣，天空破开的世界末日给于最后审判，如果你是像我一样的世俗论者，这想法太疯狂了，但这想法有它的价值。

阿兰·德波顿

养成阅读的习惯等于为你自己筑起一个避难所，几乎可以避开生命中所有的灾难。

毛姆

要做的事情有那么多，完成的却只有那么一点。事情就是这样。

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

伊丽莎白·泰勒

"Poetry is a way of thinking, a way of being in the world."

诗歌是一种思考方式，一种存在于世界的方式。

路易丝·格吕克

很多人喜欢带着情绪做事，一边做，一边不乐意。其实要么就不要做，要么就开开心心做。这世上没有谁欠谁，只有谁在乎谁。有时候依赖并不是真正非依赖不可，而是给彼此一个修好的机会。

任正非

我们要说人的文学，须得先将这个人字，略加说明。我们所说的人，不是世间所谓“天地之性最贵”，或“圆颅方趾”的人。乃是说，“从动物进化的人类”。其中有两个要点，（一）“从动物”进化的，（二）从动物“进化”的。