Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

要理解一个生命，必须先理解它所处的时代。

实现明天的唯一限制将是我们今天的疑虑。

"You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

习性不仅是一种结构化的结构，它组织实践和对实践的感知，同时也是一种被结构的结构。