没有坚强意志品质的人学识智慧也不会通达；不遵守诺言的人行动也不会实现。

I want my books to be a mirror, not a window.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

我们必须倾听原住民社区的意见；他们在土地管理方面的智慧是无与伦比的。

The only way to escape the system is to play with it, to manipulate it, to turn it against itself.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

λ演算是一种表示函数及其应用的形式体系。