I don't want to be as good as I was, I want to be better than I was.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

世界是由故事构成的，而非原子。

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.