The human mind is capable of comprehending the universe because the universe has generated minds capable of comprehending it.

我明白你无法控制生活中的一切，但你可以控制自己的反应。

如果不是现在，那是什么时候？如果不是我，那会是谁？

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.