And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

The individual has to fashion himself out of the material given by his culture.

数学直觉常常指导算法的发展，但确保其正确性和效率的是严格的证明。

真正的勇气不是没有恐惧，而是在恐惧中前行。

战争是危险的领域，因此勇气是战士的首要品质。

The moment of explosion is the fusion of art and nature. 爆炸的瞬间是艺术与自然的融合。

事实上，把人看透并不是生活的全部。把人看错才是生活，一错再错，然后经过仔细的重新考虑，再次看错。

Maybe every man has had two such women, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red becomes a mosquito blood stain on the wall, while the white remains "moonlight before the bed"; married to a white rose, the white becomes a grain of sticky rice on the clothes, while the red remains a cinnabar mole on the heart.

唯一真正属于你的是你的时间。

The key to long-term success is creating value for society.