Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? … I’d rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that’s just not reality. … I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

孩子们需要故事来帮助他们应对生活的复杂性。

谨慎坚定善良的本性，则心灵安定；收敛抑制浮燥之气，则心气平和。

死者不会停留在他们被埋葬的地方。

To be a moral human being is to pay, be obliged to pay, certain kinds of attention.