People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

The moment you stop believing, you're already defeated.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that momentarily makes us believe we're someone else.

Without music， life would be a mistake.

历史上的重大战争——我们在我们这个时代已经看到了这一点——是国家不平等发展的直接或间接结果。

"To write is to confront the ghosts that the past has left behind."

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.