Stories are the way we make sense of the world, but they are also the way we deceive ourselves.

In one of the stars I shall be living。 In one of them I shall be laughing。 And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing， when you look at the sky at night… You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.

提到当初的NBA“菜鸟”生活，姚明戏称

农业成功的真正标准不仅仅是产量，还有恢复力。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.