So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

The biographer's challenge is to be both a detective and a poet.

Every minute on stage is the accumulation of ten years of practice off stage.

我一直觉得自己是个外国人，即使在自己的国家也是如此。

I'm the reason your love won't grow.

Science is not just about discovery, but also about the application of knowledge to improve human life.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.