If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
水从山上流到滩头不是有意的,白云从洞中穿过也是无心的。
如果你不冒险,就永远不会知道自己能做什么。
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.