The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice， because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

成为诗人意味着拥有一个如此敏锐的灵魂，以至于没有任何品质的细微差别能逃过它的察觉。

A story is a way of connecting with others.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

We are all made of stories, and those stories are never truly ours alone.