Losses loom larger than gains in people's minds.

【译文】不要轻信那些所谓特别正直的人，也要防备那些标榜仁义却不仁义的人。山里有长得笔直的树，世上却无正直的人。

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Every book is a kind of journey, and every journey changes you.

We are all prisoners of our own stories, but we can choose how to tell them.