So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

烘焙不仅仅是遵循食谱，而是理解食材以及它们如何协同工作。

The method of psychology must be as exact as the methods of the natural sciences.

人们放弃自己权力的最常见方式是认为自己没有任何权力。

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

The opportunity does not go hand in hand, so when they come, you’d better hold them.