我们钦佩的男人的品质，善良和慷慨，开放，诚实，理解和感觉，是我们系统中失败的伴随物。而我们厌恶的那些特质，尖锐，贪婪，占有欲，卑鄙，自我中心和自私，是成功的特质。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
每个清晨，我从床上跳下来，然后就踩上了地雷。那个地雷就是我自己。在爆炸之后，我把那一天剩下来的时间用来把炸烂后的碎片收拾到一起。
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
夜晚是一种伟大的寂静，但星星是它的音乐。
人类能够达到的最高活动是为了理解而学习，因为理解就是自由。
许多当代作家喝的东西比写的还要多。
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.
预测蓬勃发展的积极情绪与消极情绪的比例约为3比1。高于这个比例，人们往往会蓬勃发展；低于这个比例，人们往往会萎靡不振。