And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

I am not a perfect person, but I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

煤炭不仅仅是一种商品，更是现代文明赖以建立的基础。

最能干的人之所以能干，在于不做不应该做的事，最明智的人之所以明智，在于不去考虑不该考虑的问题。人贵在有自知之明，能明白自己的身份，知道该做什么不该做什么，什么事该考虑、什么事不用自己操心，该放手的时候就要放手。分内之事，尽力去做。