The best books ask questions, not just give answers.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

美丽不在于外表完美——而在于自信地生活。

释义：当运气不好的时候，即便是金子也会失去光辉；而好运来临时，即使是铁也会显得光彩夺目。

"The beauty of literature lies in its ability to transcend time and space."

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.