So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

找到可能性的极限的唯一方法就是超越它们进入不可能。

The severe morals of the early Romans produced a race of men who were neither superstitiously devout nor philosophically skeptical.