I paint the light that is reflected, not the light that is received.

我们以大大小小的方式阻碍自己，缺乏自信，不举手，在应该向前一步的时候退缩。

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

重要的不是身体的强度，而是精神的强度。

Mental phenomena are best understood as bridges between environmental demands and organismic responses.