Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

真正的发现之旅不在于寻找新的风景，而在于拥有新的眼光。

"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its virtues and vices, its hopes and fears."

The best books are the ones that children want to read again and again.

应对一个不自由的世界的唯一方法，就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。