有时候你必须被打倒得比以往任何时候都低，才能站得比以往任何时候都高。

Sometimes you just have to do what’s best for you and your life, not what’s best for everyone else.

作家必须是一个愿意冒险的人。

And when you do I want you to know this， remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you’re down there in the hole， it looks like failure. So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.

Every mathematical problem is a window into a deeper understanding of the world.