Old soldiers never die. They just fade away.

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

译文：在激流中屹立的柱石，力挽狂澜，具有天才，建立伟大的功业，把百姓从苦难中拯救出来，使国家的命运如同磐石般稳固，不是大英雄不能担当这样的重任。

我不喜欢结局皆大欢喜的小说，这种小说让我沮丧不已。

我们思考是为了适应。

现实总是比想象更离奇。

我不做黑人音乐，我不做白人音乐，我做战斗音乐。

The challenge is to make the ordinary extraordinary.