适应变化而非抗拒变化，才能建立韧性。

永远不要低估小而持续的改进的力量。

译文：一个人虽然没有身处艰难困境，但不能忘记还有艰难的时候。世上虽然有侥幸的事情存在，但不能心存侥幸的心理。赏析：人最大的悲哀就是总是对有些事情抱有幻想，都希望坏事不会发生在自己身上，可现实很无奈，越不想越就会发生。侥幸是发生祸患的根源，做任何事前，我们一定要防患于未然，做好最坏的打算。

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."