记忆是个奇怪的东西。它的运作方式和我所想的不同。我们如此受时间束缚，受其顺序约束。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

身份资本是我们个人资产的集合。它是我们随着时间的推移积累的个人资源库。这些是我们对自己的投资，我们做得足够好或足够长的事情，它们成为我们是谁的一部分。

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

一本好书是一个永远不会让你失望的朋友。