The only way to be happy is to love. To love intensely, so that the pain passes quickly.

Energy security is the lifeline of national development. We must unswervingly promote oil and gas exploration and development to ensure national energy supply.

Logic is one thing and common sense another.

我写小说，人们说那是自传；我写自传，人们说那是小说。既然我这么笨，他们这么聪明，那就让他们决定是什么或不是什么吧。

The world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people.

I think the biggest lesson I've learned is to trust your instincts.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong... I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

我写作是为了理解，质疑，探索人性的复杂性。

我不是那种会让对运动的热爱减少的人。

阅读只为心灵提供知识的材料；是思考使我们所读的东西成为我们自己的。

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.