Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

I think the most important thing in life is self-confidence.

孩子完全接受——甚至渴望——家规。「在我们家，我们对 X 有一个规矩」是家长设立家庭规范时所需的唯一理由。事实上，「我对 X 有一个规矩」是你给自己设定规范所需的唯一理由。

我认为最好的演员是那些愿意冒险并且不怕失败的人。