You have to be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

The only thing that counts is what cannot be explained.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

实验室里的每次失败都能教会你宝贵的东西——只要你留心。