Success is not about being the best, it's about being consistent and persistent in your efforts.

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

李奥·贝纳

有什么方法可以解决刚才提到的这些焦虑呢？是有的。我想提出几项，先说“功绩主义”，也就是相信每个人的地位忠实呈现他的能力，我认为这种想法太疯狂了，我可以支持所有相信这个想法的，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治家，我同样相信功绩主义，但我认为一个完全彻底以能力取决地位的社会，是个不可能的梦想。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

阿兰·德波顿

你想找到真正勇敢的人吗？那就到没有医生的地方去找他们！在那里，人们不知道疾病会带来什么后果，在那里，人们极少会想到死亡。人自然而然地就知道应该如何不断地忍受痛苦，并安详地死去。然而，医生用他们的经验法则；哲学家用他们的格言；牧师用他们的布道词，降低了我们心脏的承受能力，并让我们忘记了应该怎样死去。

卢梭

记忆是滑溜的东西，总是在不断变化和重塑。

Memory is a slippery thing, always shifting and reshaping itself.

巴特·范·埃斯

自由并不是你想做什么就做什么，而是你不想做什么就可以不做什么。

甘地

你醒着时，现实是梦；你沉睡时，梦是唯一的现实。

弗兰兹·卡夫卡

我非常独立，但我仍然想要有人来爱。

I'm very independent, but I still want someone to love.