Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

过去是一个异国他乡；那里的人做事方式不同。