If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

对付不自由世界的唯一方法，就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.