永远不要放弃你真正想要的东西。等待很难，但后悔更难。

世界是如此不可预测。事情突然发生，出乎意料。我们想要感觉我们能控制自己的存在。在某些方面我们是，在某些方面我们不是。

阅读好书，就如同与过去几个世纪最杰出的人物交谈。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.