The poet's task is to find the eternal in the transient.
诗人的任务是在短暂中发现永恒。
临近水边，时间长了，就会懂得水中鱼的习性；靠近山林，时间长了，就会知道林中鸟儿的声音。
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future……There are answers worth billions of dollars in a history book.
When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
"When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis."
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.