The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.

If you're not failing occasionally, you're not pushing hard enough.

I don’t like to be told what to do. I like to make my own decisions.

We have a responsibility to future generations to leave the planet in better shape than we found it.

"A story untold is a life unlived; through narratives, we give meaning to our existence."

A writer is someone who pays attention to the world.

你越能将个人价值观与工作结合起来，你的生活就会越充实。