每一天都是改变生活的新机会。

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

质量从来不是偶然的，它始终是智慧努力的结果。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

The sea is a good place to think of the future.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.