Even in the quietest lives, there is drama.
The world is not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum.
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes.
——晚年访谈