"To write a biography is to walk in another's shoes, to see the world through their eyes."

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

The best way to be happy is to be yourself.

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind， as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another， yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

我们在童年时读的书就像一个秘密花园，一个我们可以逃离和梦想的地方。