The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

"The best leaders are those who develop other leaders."

突然发现自己终此一生只讲真话，对一个人来说一件很恐怖的事情。