"Time doesn’t heal. It just makes the hurt familiar."

不是追求完美，而是比昨天的自己更好。

I don’t take no for an answer.

数学家的模式，就像画家或诗人的模式一样，必须是美丽的。

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

"We are all our own prisons, our own jailers."

如果中原真的能消除战乱，我们两个老头子又何妨老死在戍边之地。

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.