The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

创新不仅仅是创造新事物；它关乎改变人们的生活。