The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.

写作是一种孤独的修行。

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

人生没有捷径，只有脚踏实地。

Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority of a voice, not the purity of a soul.

In the end, we are all just stories, and it is up to us to make our stories worth telling.