So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
The best stories are those that leave room for the reader.
译文：人生百年，无论大小事，兴盛与衰败，都如同一场梦般转瞬即逝。
创作的行为是一种转化的行为。
农业的变革始于学习和适应的意愿。
当老人们种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在其下的树时，社会就会变得伟大。
世界如此之大，同时又如此之小。
To write is to breathe life into the shadows of our thoughts, to give form to the formless.