The real violence is the violence we do to ourselves when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge.
我不是为了纪录而打球。我只是想享受我的网球。
I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.