No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

小说的艺术在于让读者忘记作家的存在。

最令人兴奋的突破往往来自跨学科研究。

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.

真正的领导力意味着倾听，尤其是那些不同意你的人。

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.