我们都受社会契约的约束，须遵守法律，但我们也有权参与制定这些法律。

Life is like a song, with highs and lows.

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.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.