Optimism is a learned skill.

Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

当每一天都和前一天一样时，是因为人们未能认识到每天太阳升起时，生活中发生的那些美好事物。

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.