How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

The principal effect of the progress of society is to increase the quantity of wealth, and the power of distributing it.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

We are all prisoners of our own experiences, and the key to freedom lies in understanding them.

你不必完美才能令人惊叹。