当有人和你讲人类历史的巅峰辉煌之年，即事情走下坡路之前的那段时期，你发现好像总是他们10岁的时候--这是任何人类存在的高峰。
When someone tells you about the peak year of human history， the period of time when things were good before things went downhill， it will always be the years of when they were 10 years sold — which is the peak of any human’s existence.
"A novel is a conversation across time."
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did； they will only remember how you made them feel.
"The soul of a person is revealed in their stories."
所以君子努力做事就会日渐强大，安于嗜欲就日渐苟且，恭敬庄重就日益繁盛。