什麼是天才！我想，天才就是勤奮的結果。

古今中外，凡成就事業，對人類有作為的無一不是腳踏實地艱苦攀登的結果。

創新人才的基本要件――負“職責”肯領悟，勤“動手”不怕錯，守“紀律”重團結。

非經自我發奮所得的創新，就不是真正的創新。

沒有任何動物比螞蟻更勤奮，然而它卻最沉默寡言。

對搞科學的人來說，勤奮就是成功之母。

科學是為了那些勤奮好學的人，詩歌是為了那些知識淵博的人。

人為某事而誕生，並不是為無所事事而誕生。

哪裡有天才，我是把別人喝咖啡的功夫，都用在工作上的。

業精於勤而荒於嬉，行成於思而毀於隨。

路是腳踏出來的，歷史是人寫出來的。人的每一步行動都在書寫自己的歷史。

生命的用途並不在長短而在我們怎樣利用它。許多人活的日子並不多，卻活了很長久。

攀登上一個階梯，這固然很好，只要還有力氣，那就意味著必須再繼續前進一步。

勞動教養了身體，學習教養了心靈。

在天才和勤奮兩者之間，我毫不遲疑地選擇勤奮，她是幾乎世界上一切成就的催產婆。

我們每個人手裡都有一把自學成才的鑰匙，這就是：理想勤奮毅力虛心和科學方法。

不存在沒有熱情的智慧，也不存在沒有知能的熱情，如果沒有勤奮，也不存在熱情與才能的結合。

天才就是最強有力的牛，他們一刻不停地一天工作十八小時。

時間是個常數，但也是個變數。勤奮的人無窮多，懶惰的人無窮少。

求學的三個條件是：多觀察多吃苦多研究。

如果你富於天資，勤奮可以發揮它的作用；如果你智力平庸，勤奮可以彌補它的不足。

形成天才的決定因素應該是勤奮，有幾分勤學苦練是成正比例的。

攀登頂峰，這種奮鬥的本身就足以充實人的心。人們必須相信，壘山不止就是幸福。

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me.

Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

Make personal growth a daily priority.

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of anothers pain can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

When you cut your hair, everybody thinks you lost weight.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.