最好的故事是那些留给人想象空间的故事。

We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

我不想只在球场上成为冠军，我想在生活中也成为冠军。

——1998年3月4日接受外界采访

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.

"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart."